Quotes from Og Mandino

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

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

I will walk where failures fear to walk.

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.

Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Never settle for the crumbs of life.

I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.