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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
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Prevent
Mind
Gain
Gains
Failure
State
Rather
Success

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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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I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?
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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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So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist.
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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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Act now, for now is all you have.
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I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.
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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 need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.
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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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Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.
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