Famous Quotes & Sayings

Og Mandino

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

Og Mandino

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

Og Mandino

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Og Mandino

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

Og Mandino

I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepperd. I am lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

Og Mandino

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.

Og Mandino

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

Og Mandino

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Og Mandino

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Og Mandino

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

Og Mandino

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

Og Mandino

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Norman Thomas

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Schwarzkopf

When placed in command, take charge.

Norman Mailer

There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.

Norman Mailer

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Oscar de la Renta

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

Orson Welles

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Orson Welles

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Orson Welles

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.

Oriana Fallaci

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

Orhan Pamuk

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Orison Swett Marden

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Orison Swett Marden

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Orison Swett Marden

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Orison Swett Marden

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Orison Swett Marden

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Orison Swett Marden

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Orison Swett Marden

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

Orison Swett Marden

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.