Og Mandino Quotes

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

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.

I can do more. I can grow. I can become a bigger and better 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.

Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.

Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

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

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

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

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.

I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about believing in yourself and not accepting second best. Our inner world is at odds with that.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

We need to realize that we can do anything with our lives because of who we are.