Mannen Og Muren Quotes

Getting old is to realize that you will not achieve big things in your remaining time. ~ Sercan Leylek

In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities. ~ Og Mandino

When we were given dominion over the world, we were also given dominion over ourselves. God is not our navigator. It was never His intention to chart a course for each of us and thus place us all under His bondage. Instead, He bestowed each of us with intellect and talent and vision to map our own way, to write our own Book of Life in any manner we choose. ~ Og Mandino

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. ~ Og Mandino

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you. ~ Og Mandino

Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man. ~ Diana Gabaldon

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs. ~ Og Mandino

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. ~ Og Mandino

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. ~ Og Mandino

GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD ~ Og Mandino

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind? ~ Og Mandino

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead ... ~ Og Mandino

You merely picture in your mind having already accomplished or attained your goal, whatever it may be. Hold it firmly in your thoughts, picture it as already being yours, and amazing things will happen. ~ Og Mandino

I will form good habits and become their slaves. ~ Og Mandino

I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why should the miracle that produced me end with my brith? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today? ~ Og Mandino

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. ~ Og Mandino

Always let your reach exceed your grasp. ~ Og Mandino

I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. ~ Og Mandino

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others. ~ Og Mandino

Nothing can bring the hurt of loneliness upon a man so swiftly as to pass a strange house in the dark and witness, in the lamplight from within, a family breaking evening bread together. ~ Og Mandino

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great. ~ Dennis Muren

You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others. ~ Og Mandino

Immortality is often ridiculous or cruel: few of us would have chosen to be Og or Ananias or Gallio. Even in mathematics, history sometimes plays strange tricks; Rolle figures in the textbooks of elementary calculus as if he had been a mathematician like Newton; Farey is immortal because he failed to understand a theorem which Haros had proved perfectly fourteen years before; the names of five worthy Norwegians still stand in Abel's Life, just for one act of conscientious imbecility, dutifully performed at the expense of their country's greatest man. But on the whole the history of science is fair, and this is particularly true in mathematics. No other subject has such clear-cut or unanimously accepted standards, and the men who are remembered are almost always the men who merit it. Mathematical fame, if you have the cash to pay for it, is one of the soundest and steadiest of investments. ~ G.H. Hardy

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. ~ Og Mandino

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. ~ Og Mandino

We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves. ~ Og Mandino

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically. ~ Dennis Muren

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope. ~ Og Mandino

Manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. ~ Og Mandino

Son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be ~ Og Mandino

And so long as I can laugh never will I be poor. ~ Og Mandino

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste. ~ Og Mandino

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down. ~ Dennis Muren

To me there was no catharsis, only an unearthing of rotting corpses of memories, a baring og still suppurating wounds. ~ Robin Hobb

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ~ Og Mandino

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement. ~ Og Mandino

Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them ... as you make the effort. ~ Og Mandino

Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore. ~ Dennis Muren

And most of all I will love myself. For when I do I will zealously inspect all things which enter my body, my mind, my soul, and my heart. Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation. Never will I allow my mind to be attracted to evil and despair, rather I will uplift it with the knowledge and wisdom of the ages. Never will I allow my soul to become complacent and satisfied, rather I will feed it with meditation and prayer. Never will I allow my heart to become small and bitter, rather I will share it and it will grow and warm the earth. ~ Og Mandino

Each problem has a positive side. ~ Og Mandino

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something. ~ Dennis Muren

I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. ~ Og Mandino

Use wisely your power of choice. ~ Og Mandino

Treasure the friendship you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. ~ Og Mandino

No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity. ~ Og Mandino