The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We can so educate the will power that it will focus the thoughts upon the bright side of things, and upon objects which elevate… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Gulliver was a giant whom the dwarfs captured while he was napping by binding him with tiny threads. Each thread was a trifle which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The hatred thought cannot live an instant in the presence of the love thought.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“About as poor business as one can engage in is that of going through life with one's eyes so fixed upon what others have,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
