Roger McDonald (b.1941) is the author of nine novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of other works. The middle son of a Presbyterian minister, Hugh Fraser McDonald, and the Central Queensland historian, Dr Lorna McDonald, his childhood was spent in the NSW country towns of Bribbaree, Temora, and Bourke, before the family moved to Sydney. He attended The Scots College and the University of Sydney.
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Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that’s the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: People, Success, Effort
A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.
—Roger McDonald
When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Work
Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Happiness
If we are to accomplish anything in a big way, a set of definite objective must be established.
—Roger McDonald
I operate according to a definite, unerring law…I know the outcome before I start.
—Roger McDonald
Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Power, Lies
Those who think they know everything will learn nothing.
—Roger McDonald
So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which results in a slow reaction, or no reaction at all. Do you have a great, ultimate goal to reach that requires attaining lesser objectives along the way? Well then, let the many lie inactive and direct your force at the nearest or first; once you accomplish that, take up the next and so on.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Results, Action
I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Life, Destiny
Anything you undertake will be possible to accomplish.
—Roger McDonald
With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Faith, Success
Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Progress
I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Poverty, Sin, Patience
You cannot attain mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Mastery, Win
There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Possibilities, Success, Mastery
As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend upon a separate agency to ignite them to action, and both bring helpful or harmful results according to the wisdom or ignorance with which they are directed.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Results, Wisdom, Ignorance, Power, Action
Any picture firmly held in any mind, in any form, is bound to come forth. That is the great, unchanging universal law that, when we cooperate with it intelligently, makes us absolute masters of the conditions and situations in our lives.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Live
Believe me, you can have anything you want–and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Dance, Believe, Power
If you use these principles wisely and intelligently, there can be no uncertainty as to the outcome of any endeavor, and no limit to your possibilities.
—Roger McDonald
Topics: Possibilities
Extraordinary things like this occur frequently to most of us, but we disregard them, because of our lack of understanding, and we think they are mere coincidences.
—Roger McDonald
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