Opportunity Quote by Orison Swett Marden

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”

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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

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Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

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“The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the…

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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

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