Og Mandino Quotes

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

There's always going to be someone out there... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.

I think everybody should have the attitude that you can't allow yourself to be hurt. You avoid a lot just with that attitude.

You can't allow someone's hate to dictate your life.

Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.

Even when I had nothing, I had everything. Because I love to compete.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".

This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.

We should not let negative influences get to us.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

There's gonna be haters, but don't let them affect you, don't let them take away a part of you.

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

I remember when I started acting and didn't get a part and was really jealous of the girl who got it. My mom would say to me, "If you don't get a part, that means it's not your part. It's just not yours. You will have your parts." It really recalibrated me at a very young age to where I could be driven because I was trying to achieve things for myself, and that had nothing to do with what anybody else was doing.

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here

I don't get bitter, I just get better.

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head.

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.

You can be excellent in every way. You can be first class. There is no need for you to be a scrub. Respect yourself. Do not feel sorry for yourself. Do not dwell on unkind things others may say about you. Polish and refine whatever talents the Lord has given you. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life and look for its opportunities.

You will definitely find moments where somebody else is going to try to suppress you or put you down, but you have a choice in how you see yourself.