University of Success Quotes

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, he can achieve.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Often it is not the wrong start but the wrong stop that makes the difference between success and failure.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Men don’t fail; they give up trying.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Success is not something that must be deserved or earned. It is more an inherent right—an inherent responsibility. The only qualification for success is that you be you, that you utilize whatever combination of talent you possess to the fullest extent possible.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“But be careful not to let yourself slip into the situation where your goals concern only your business or making money. Think of your marriage, your children, and your friends as important areas in which to improve your life.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you!”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“competition will always place your life in the hands of others, while initiative gives you the freedom to choose your own destiny …”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“feelings … moods and … emotions will follow action. If you want to be enthusiastic  … act enthusiastically. Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“I would rather try to succeed and fail than try to do nothing and succeed.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“A good many of our higher-bracket businessmen might have been just as rich, just as powerful, but more respected and infinitely happier, if they had taken the slower and longer road of absolute ethical integrity and moral decency.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“About 90 percent of the things in our lives are right, and about 10 percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 90 percent that are right, and ignore the 10 percent that are wrong. If we want to be worried and bitter and have stomach ulcers, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 10 percent that are wrong and ignore the 90 percent that are glorious.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“There are certain constant factors to be found in true success whether it be the success of an Andrew Carnegie or of a Mahatma Gandhi. These are the essential factors, independent of wealth or achievement, poverty or asceticism. These are the dynamic factors in success, the very bone and sinew of it. The first constant factor is purpose. One must know that in whatever he does he is moving forward toward a goal. Aimlessness is the worst enemy of success. One can hardly feel successful in a bog. But as long as one has purpose he feels that his energies and creative thought are taking him somewhere, and there is satisfaction in the journey just as there is despair whenever we feel, as we often insightfully put it, that we are “getting nowhere.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“A morbid concentration on one’s grievances with life will only make one’s problems more severe. Far better to focus on one’s successes, to gain confidence from seeing oneself winning out. Then one can forge ahead in life.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Many of us never ever discover our greatness because we become sidetracked by a secondary activity.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“I have operated on dozens and dozens of people to improve deficient features only to find that, after surgery, they replaced this real physical fault in their minds with a nonsensical belief which continued their unswerving fixation on their inferiority. Their negative beliefs varied; their movement toward failure was the same kind of mechanism.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Shall man’s basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance?”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. The first copper you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow. The sooner you plant that seed the sooner shall the tree grow. And the more faithfully you nourish and water that tree with consistent savings, the sooner may you bask in contentment beneath its shade.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live,” Marcus Aurelius”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World