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If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

Og Mandino

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.
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All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.
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Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.
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Cultivate the habit of laughter.
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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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I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.
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A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.
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Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
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Nothing is easier than fault finding.
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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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I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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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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God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.
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Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.
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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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I will greet this day with love in my heart.
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