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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?

Og Mandino

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

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My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.
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Always let your reach exceed your grasp.
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
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Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
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Nothing is easier than fault finding.
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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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Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
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I am natures greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me. I am a unique creature.
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Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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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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Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
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A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.
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Cultivate the habit of laughter.
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Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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