Og Mandino Quotes

I don't have too many bad days because I just don't let them happen. When I'm having one of those days, I'll just be like. 'I'm not going to let this be a bad day,' and I'll do everything I can to turn it around.

I have my moments when I am down and low. But I gather myself when decisions are to be taken.

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.

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.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

A perspective that allows you to consistently make decisions based on the right set of criteria. Positivity and forward thinking. I work on that one every day, and every day I get a little better. Better at knowing that there is no obstacle that I cannot overcome. Nothing I can be faced with that I won't grow mentally stronger and wiser from having endured.

Whenever I feel bad, I use that feeling to motivate me to work harder. I only allow myself one day to feel sorry for myself. When I'm not feeling my best I ask myself, 'What are you gonna do about it?' I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

You are doing better than you think you are.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

You can't cry yourself to sleep every night because people from a distance hate you. So you gotta do with it what you can, and if that means using it as motivation, then that's what you do.

For me, that's the biggest thing, if something holds me back it's my mental game so I really tried to focus on that and just worked on that.

I believe that everyone has good days and bad days, but you can't let the bad times beat you down.

I just have a really strong mind and I just believe in myself a lot.