Quotes from Og Mandino

Therefore, each hour of this day will I cherish for it can never return.

Thus a new and good habit is born, for when an act becomes easy through constant repetition it becomes a pleasure to perform and if it is a pleasure to perform it is man's nature to perform it often. When I perform it often it becomes a habit and I become its slave and since it is a good habit this is my will. Today I begin a new life.

The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn.

I am a unique creature of nature. I am rare and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable

La vida es fácil si se vive un día, cada día, sin pensar en los ayeres ni afanarse por los mañanas

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse." Hafid

I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I

each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better 

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet i will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars

I will know that only those with inferior ability can always be at their best, and I am not inferior. There will be days when I must constantly struggle against forces which would tear me down. Those such as despair and sadness are simple to recognize but there are others which approach with a smile and the hand of friendship and they can also destroy me. Against them, too, I must never relinquish control—

Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert, for he has only himself to sustain and none but his god to please, but I consider poverty to be the mark of a lack of ability or a lack of ambition. I am not deficient in either of these qualities!

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.

Our worth is always determined by our deeds, not by our good intentions, however noble.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live," Marcus Aurelius

Failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough.

insurmountable

know one of the greatest principles of success; if I persist long enough I will win. I will persist. I will win.

am nature's greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my mind, my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me.

Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not, for today I am a new man, with a new life.

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

Take great comfort in knowing that all great feats are accomplished one small step at a time

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

Failure no longer will be my payment for struggle.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves Ã¢â'¬Â¦