Og Mandino Quotes

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

I push myself to the limit.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

I think both running and science reflect certain character traits. I have endurance, patience, and ambition. I'm willing to work hard toward a goal, to push myself and overcome limits. Running and science both let me express these traits.

Strive for extraordinary, don't moan, and sleep when you're dead.

I just keep working.

There are a lot of things in business that are completely out of your control, but hard work isn't one of them.

I just believe in working hard, and whatever comes my way, I try and give it my best.

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

When things get hard, I think, 'Someone somewhere is working harder than me.'

I'll keep going. That's one thing about myself - I'll roll my sleeves up and keep going.

Life is not promised forever. That's the biggest thing that I learned and I enjoy and I will take with me past this pandemic, is just being able to appreciate every little thing that goes on.

Over the years, I was always training hard, no matter what position I was in.

Every single time I get on the mat, every tournament, I get to see what I'm made of, how tough I am, where my desire is, and how hard I've worked.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

The world belongs to those who persevere.

I would rather wear out than rust out.

We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.

Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Surviving the grind of 18-hour days and getting up at four in the morning to work out for an hour so I'd have the energy to do it again the next day. I did not know I had that discipline. I did not know I had the discipline to learn a seven-page scene in three hours to shoot that day or the next day. I didn't know that I was capable of realizing that potential.