Og Mandino Quotes

I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.

I always say that what's between you and your success is yourself.

You have to be confident to be successful... I am somewhat confident.

For me, I already fought some of the best people there are. I already did, you know, what I need to do for me.

My aim is to give the best of myself.

If you are the best you can be, you are doing your best.

I just want to do my best.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

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.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.

Your success and happiness start with you.

Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.

If you believe in yourself you can make yourself whatever you want to be.

I do believe in self-help.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Your vision of where or who you want to be is your greatest asset.