Quotes from Og Mandino

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

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

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

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.

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

Failure no longer will be my payment for struggle.

Most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.