Og Mandino Quotes

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.

We can all choose to become our potential, not just talk about it or dream about it. But daily, make a shift whereby we begin living and being our potential. With each day, that potential can expand because we are open to learning something every day.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

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

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I always want to grow and top myself.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

I want to reach my full potential.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.