Og Mandino Quotes

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Talent is long patience.

One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

I just keep working.

The key is to keep playing hard and the rest will take care of itself.

The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it's not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.

Just because you did something once doesn't mean anything. You have to be willing in your heart to begin again every day. The minute I'm not willing to do that, I will retire.

Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.