Og Mandino Quotes

Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

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• Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • School
  • Science

• Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Practice
  • Most

• I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Character
  • History

• I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Food
  • Cook
  • Contend

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Relationships

• Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Ability
  • Create
  • Conquer

• As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Week
  • Gym

• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • She
  • Mother
  • Man

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • People
  • Word
  • Interview

• I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Home
  • Green

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Soul

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Pleasure
  • Everyone

• I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Perfect
  • Laugh

• As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Time

• I hope wholeheartedly that badminton will be as popular and respected as tennis one day.

  

  Lin Dan
  • Hope
  • Popular
  • Tennis

• There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Trying
  • Stop

• Big game hunters and the hunting industry in South Africa know a lot of people regard what they do as terrible, and the media have tended not to do them any favours. So it was an uphill struggle to win trust from the people and to get into the world.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • People
  • World
  • Game

• Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Confidence
  • Struggle
  • Courage