Quotes from Og Mandino

The Scroll Marked VI Today I will be master of my emotions.

The Scroll Marked VII I will laugh at the world.

I will remember the ancient law of averages and I will bend it to my good. I will persist with knowledge that each failure to sell will increase my chance for success at the next attempt. Each nay I hear will bring me closer to the sound of yea. Each frown I meet only prepares me for the smile to come. Each misfortune I encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. I must have the night to appreciate the day. I must fail often to succeed only once.

It will become stronger and more protective with use until one day I will cast it aside and walk unencumbered among all manners of men and, when I do, my name will be raised high on the pyramid of life.

The Scroll Marked VIII Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.

Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation.

The Scroll Marked IX My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action. I will act now.

The Scroll Marked X

Go in peace. Mizpah." "Mizpah? I know what that means." "Tell me, son," he said, biting on his lower lip. "The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

exultation.

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 use 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.

infirmities

Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance?

Many of us never ever discover our greatness because we become sidetracked by a secondary activity.

The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance.

Mecbur kal?rsan?z,onurlu bir yoksulluk hayat? yaÅŸamay? öÄŸrenin,alt?nlar?n?z? mezara götürmek yerine dha önemli meselelere bak?n.

I have operated on dozens and dozens of people to improve deficient features only to find that, after surgery, they replaced this real physical fault in their minds with a nonsensical belief which continued their unswerving fixation on their inferiority. Their negative beliefs varied; their movement toward failure was the same kind of mechanism.

let your heart be the light that guides your day and the experience that guides your night. see any bad situation as an experience, and you'll find it very easy to overcome any obstacle.

Avoid with fury the killers of time.

you have always been as my own. I am perplexed

As I repeat the words daily they will soon become a part of my active mind, but more important, they will also seep into my other mind, that mysterious source which never sleeps, which creates my dreams, and often makes me act in ways I do not comprehend.

melancholy.

Writing, I am convinced, is the least appreciated of all the creative arts. Only a miniscule portion of the population engages in sculpting or painting or composing but everyone writes - whether it be letters, invitations, shopping lists...It is not far-fetched, therefore, for anyone with a smattering of self-esteem to believe that if he or she had the time, and the desire, an acceptable book or article could be produced.

Do all things with love