Quotes from Og Mandino

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

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.

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

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.

Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.