Top 100 Quotes About Og's
#1. Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.
Og Mandino
#3. As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men.
Og Mandino
#4. Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man.
Diana Gabaldon
#5. All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective ... Remember, it is always later than you think.
Og Mandino
#6. I am natures greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me. I am a unique creature.
Og Mandino
#7. Laugh at yourself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.
Og Mandino
#8. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Og Mandino
#9. Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.
Og Mandino
#10. Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Og Mandino
#11. I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.
Og Mandino
#12. Og led us through the mansion's lavish front entrance. The lights were off inside, but instead of turning them on, Morrow took an honest-to-God torch off the wall and used it to illuminate our way.
Ernest Cline
#13. You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.
Og Mandino
#14. most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.
Og Mandino
#15. Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.
Og Mandino
#16. when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.
Og Mandino
#17. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino
#18. You will move in the direction you are facing.
Og Mandino
#19. To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino
#20. Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
Og Mandino
#21. 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.
Og Mandino
#22. I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
Og Mandino
#23. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.
Og Mandino
#24. I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I
Og Mandino
#25. Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
Og Mandino
#26. My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror ... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.
Og Mandino
#27. I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
Og Mandino
#28. You are the most irritating man I've ever met!"
He grinned. "But you like my kisses."...
"Am I not to have dreams, or desires, or enjoy - pleasure? 'Twon't do, Alasdair Og Sinclair, kissing a lass, and then forbidding her to have any more, when it's your fault I like kisses.
Lecia Cornwall
#29. Women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with ... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.
Og Mandino
#30. Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be
Og Mandino
#31. In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.
Og Mandino
#32. One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.
Og Mandino
#33. 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
#34. Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
Og Mandino
#35. Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them ... as you make the effort.
Og Mandino
#36. We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit.
Sol Saks
#37. Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea.
Alexandra Adornetto
#38. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
Og Mandino
#39. I will form good habits and become their slaves.
Og Mandino
#40. Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is ... the highway to success.
Og Mandino
#41. Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
Og Mandino
#42. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.
Og Mandino
#43. You can't conquer reality by running away from it.
Og Mandino
#45. Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
Og Mandino
#46. I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.
Og Mandino
#47. If I had signed my fourth season of SNL, I wouldn't have ever had the opportunity to do Curb Your Enthusiasm. If my buddy OG Pearson wouldn't have passed away, I wouldn't have been in L.A. for his memorial, and I would've never auditioned for Curb.
J. B. Smoove
#48. If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!
Og Mandino
#49. Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.
Og Mandino
#50. Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.
Og Mandino
#51. 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
#52. Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
Og Mandino
#53. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs. Is
Og Mandino
#54. There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
Og Mandino
#55. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.
Og Mandino
#56. The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.
Og Mandino
#57. Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity.
Og Mandino
#58. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
Og Mandino
#60. Within me burns a flame which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will.
Og Mandino
#61. Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.
Og Mandino
#62. I would rather try to succeed and fail than try to do nothing and succeed.
Og Mandino
#63. I will work when failures seek rest.
Og Mandino
#64. Failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
#65. I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
Og Mandino
#66. Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.
Og Mandino
#67. Green grass grows where dry desert ends.
Og Mandino
#68. Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation.
Og Mandino
#69. I will walk where failures fear to walk.
Og Mandino
#70. 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.
Og Mandino
#71. 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
#72. Only action determines my value in the market place and to multiply my value I will multiply my actions.
Og Mandino
#73. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.
Og Mandino
#74. Experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow. Only principles endure
Og Mandino
#75. Therefore, each hour of this day will I cherish for it can never return.
Og Mandino
#76. The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.
Og Mandino
#77. Always let your reach exceed your grasp.
Og Mandino
#78. The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino
#79. I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
#80. All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath
so what does that make today worth?
Og Mandino
#81. Richter said, 'Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.'
Og Mandino
#82. If I persist long enough I will win.
Og Mandino
#83. I will consider each day's effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak.
Og Mandino
#84. Only a habit can subdue another habit.
Og Mandino
#85. If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life.
Og Mandino
#86. And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?
Og Mandino
#87. Let others build a cave with their clay. I will build a castle with mine.
Og Mandino
#88. We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough. And so we die before we reach middle age, although we will not be lowered into the ground until we pass three score and ten.
Og Mandino
#89. And so long as I can laugh never will I be poor.
Og Mandino
#90. Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to
ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino
#91. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
Og Mandino
#92. Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars
Holless Wilbur Allen
#93. Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.
Og Mandino
#94. Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.
Og Mandino
#95. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.
Og Mandino
#96. Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
Og Mandino
#97. Action will destroy your procrastination.
Og Mandino
#98. You merely picture in your mind having already accomplished or attained your goal, whatever it may be. Hold it firmly in your thoughts, picture it as already being yours, and amazing things will happen.
Og Mandino
#99. 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.
Og Mandino
#100. The years rolled slowly by and I found myself alone, surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, found myslef further and further from my home I guess I lost my way - There were og so many roads.
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
