Famous quote by Og Mandino

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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and
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"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead"

- Og Mandino

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The quote implies that consistently planning to enhance one's life without taking action is the equivalent of postponing basic needs like eating, drinking, and sleeping up until death. To put it simply, it is meaningless to have aspirations without putting in the effort to attain them.

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Og Mandino This quote is written / told by Og Mandino between December 12, 1923 and September 3, 1996. He was a famous Author from USA. The author also have 22 other quotes.

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