Og Mandino Quotes
Best 21 The Greatest Salesman in the World Quotes by Og Mandino
The Greatest Salesman in the World Quotes
“As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men.”
“Experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow. Only principles endure.”
“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”
“I am the end product of thousands of years of evolution; therefore, I am better equipped in both mind and body than all the emperors and wise men who preceded me.”
“I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.”
“I will consider each day’s effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak.”
“I will live this day as if it is my last. I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart. This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I am indeed a fortunate man and today’s hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?”
“If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life.”
“Let others build a cave with their clay. I will build a castle with mine.”
“Manners and graces are the sugar to which all are attracted.”
“Most of all I will love myself. For when I do I will zealously inspect all things which enter my body, my mind, my soul, and my heart. Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation. Never will I allow my mind to be attracted to evil and despair, rather I will uplift it with the knowledge and wisdom of the ages. Never will I allow my soul to become complacent and satisfied, rather I will feed it with meditation and prayer. Never will I allow my heart to become small and bitter, rather I will share it and it will grow and warm the earth.”
“My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.”
“Only action determines my value in the market place and to multiply my value I will multiply my actions.”
“Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert, for he has only himself to sustain and none but his god to please, but I consider poverty to be the mark of lack of ability or lack of ambition.”
“The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn. Concentration.”
“The rewards are great if one succeeds but the rewards are great only because so few succeed.”
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“The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.”
“There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.”
“They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.”
“Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity.”
“Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.”
“Which two, among a thousand wise men, will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way. Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.”