The University of Success by Og Mandino Lesson 7 – How to give your dreams a Chance to come true. “The easiest thing to find on God’s earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.” Richard M De Vos, in his book, “Believe!” A simple two-word prhrase, if you have uttered […]
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Lesson 6 – How to Accept the Challenge of Success.
The University of Success, by Og Mandino Lesson 6 How to Accept the Challenge of Success. “Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake, we are making use of only a small part of our mental and physical resources,” wrote William James, psychologist. We live in an age that has come […]
Lesson 5 – How to conquer the ten most common causes of failure.
The University of Success, by Og Mandino. Lesson 5. How to conquer the ten most common causes of failure. “Very often we are our own worst enemy as we build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness,” said Louis Binstock the famed rabbi of Temple Shalom in Chicago, in his book, […]
Lesson 4 – How to recognize your failure symptoms.
The University of Success, by Og Mandino Lesson 4 – How to recognize your failure symptoms. “There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow,” Dorothea Brande in her book “Wake up and Live!” We have all become conversant with such phrases as The Will to […]
Lesson 3 – How to count your blessings
The University of Success, by Og Mandino Lesson 3. How to Count Your Blessings. “Feeling sorry for yourself and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have, Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living), “I had the blues because I had no shoes,until […]
Lesson 1. How to look back on where you have been.
The University of Success, by Og Mandino. Lesson 1. How to look back on where you have been. No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you. You are in the business of living. You never do anything harder in your life than leaving your parents. 2. Howard […]
Lesson 25 – Of the things that cause a quiet life from the Sages of Old.
Of the things that cause a quiet life from the Sages of Old. 1. My friend! The things that do attain the happy life be these, I find. The Riches left, not got with pain; the fruitful ground; the quiet mind. 2. The equal friend. No grudge, no strife; No charge of rule, nor governance. […]
Lesson 24 – Pithy Metres of divers matters from the sages of old, written in the 1500s.
Pithy Metres of divers matters from the sages of old, written in the 1500s. 1. He that to Wrath and Anger is thrall, Over his Wit hath no power at all. 2. Be merry and glad, honest and virtuous! For that suffices to anger the envious. 3. The more that a man has of abundance, […]
Lesson 23 – Of Benefits, and of Unthankfulness.
Of Benefits, and of Unthankfulness. 1. Benefits ought to be as well borne in mind, as received with the hand. 2.The remembrance of Benefits ought never to wax old. 3. The will of the giver, and not the value of the gift, is to be regarded. 4. He is worthy to be deceived which, while […]
Lesson 22 – Divers Sentences of sundry Matters
Divers Sentences of sundry Matters 1. Eloquence is a goodly gift; which in truth, shines; but in falsehood, corrupts.. 2. It is hard to find a meek witty man. 3. Nature, Will, Diligence, and Order, make men wise and good: as for the number of years , it brings nought save death. 4. Man is […]