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I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

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Og Mandino
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 1996
Died: September 3
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Framingham
Massachusetts
Augustine Og Mandino II
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Mind
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Failure
State
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Success

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In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is - I will form good habits and become their slave.
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You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
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And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.
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Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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Cultivate the habit of laughter.
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Today.....I begin a new life.
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So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist.
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... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.
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Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
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And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
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Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.
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The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.
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I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
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Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
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I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.
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It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world
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