Quotes from Og Mandino

Richter said, 'Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.' 

But be careful not to let yourself slip into the situation where your goals concern only your business or making money. Think of your marriage, your children, and your friends as important areas in which to improve your life.

No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you!

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

They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.

A good many of our higher-bracket businessmen might have been just as rich, just as powerful, but more respected and infinitely happier, if they had taken the slower and longer road of absolute ethical integrity and moral decency.

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

To have a happy family is to enjoy an earlier heaven.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

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

No longer will I judge a man on one meeting; no longer will I fail to call again tomorrow on he who meets me with hate today.

Nature already has supplied me with knowledge and instinct far greater than any beast in the forest and the value of experience is overrated, usually by old men who nod wisely and speak stupidly.