Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Roger McDonald (Australian Novelist)

Hugh Roger McDonald (b.1941) is an Australian author known for his novels and nonfiction works.

Born in Young, New South Wales, he attended Scots College and the University of Sydney before briefly working as a teacher, ABC producer, and editor. He transitioned to full-time writing in 1976.

His début novel, 1915 (1979,) a historical fiction set during World War I, was later adapted into a seven-part ABC-TV series. His nonfiction book Shearers’ Motel (1992) offers a vivid depiction of Australian rural life and was adapted for ABC-TV as Cross Turning Over. He wrote Mr. Darwin’s Shooter (1998,) which explores the life of Darwin’s assistant Syms Covington, and The Ballad of Desmond Kale (2006,) an epic tale of early colonial Australia. His novel When Colts Ran (2010) reflects on Australian identity and rural hardships.

McDonald’s later works include The Following (2013,) a fictionalized portrayal of Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley, and A Sea-Chase (2017,) a story of personal transformation set against a maritime backdrop. His diverse body of work spans historical fiction, rural narratives, and explorations of Australian identity, leaving a significant imprint on the country’s literature.

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Those who think they know everything will learn nothing.
Roger McDonald
Topics: Think, Master, Learn

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: Master, Faith, Success

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: Abundance, Great, Power, Learn, Master, Believe, Dance

Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.
Roger McDonald
Topics: Lies, Master, Great, Power

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, Master, Great, Mind

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
Topics: Master, Think

A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.
Roger McDonald
Topics: Master, Act

There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.
Roger McDonald
Topics: Mastery, Success, Master, Possibilities

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: Follow, Mastery, Win, Master

Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that’s the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.
Roger McDonald
Topics: Reason, Effort, Master, People, Success

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: Act, Wisdom, Great, Mind, Results, Ignorance, Power, Master, Action

Anything you undertake will be possible to accomplish.
Roger McDonald
Topics: Master

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.
Roger McDonald
Topics: Earth, Master, Poverty, Sin, Great, Patience

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: Wise, Master, Learn, Happiness, Mind

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: Wise, Master, Principles, Possibilities

When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe.
Roger McDonald
Topics: Persona, Universe, Mind, Work, Master

I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be.
Roger McDonald
Topics: Master, Destiny, Life

Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.
Roger McDonald
Topics: Progress, Give, Master

I operate according to a definite, unerring law…I know the outcome before I start.
Roger McDonald
Topics: Master

If we are to accomplish anything in a big way, a set of definite objective must be established.
Roger McDonald
Topics: Master

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