Og Mandino Quotes

You cannot wait until everything becomes better before you decide to have a good attitude. You have to be the best you can be right where you are.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive.

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

Take everything that's bad in your life and look at the positive within it. Don't ever see your glass as half-empty.

I have tried to have a really good, positive attitude.

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.

You have to continue to smile through life. And it's good when you get to bring that out in a character.

I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!

Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.

Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.