The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak. Orison Swett Marden More Quotes by Orison Swett Marden More Quotes From 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. Orison Swett Marden strength strong inspirational Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. Orison Swett Marden success motivational meaningful Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small. Orison Swett Marden obstacles challenges looks There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. Orison Swett Marden life-and-love dream inspirational There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. Orison Swett Marden get-well-soon powerful hope No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster. Orison Swett Marden soul desire men Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great. Orison Swett Marden opportunity integrity mean A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat. Orison Swett Marden rocks procrastination sea Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. Orison Swett Marden uplifting ambition inspirational Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation. Orison Swett Marden expectations work doors Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else. Orison Swett Marden conquer What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort. Orison Swett Marden pay-the-price sacrifice inspirational The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. Orison Swett Marden confidence money inspirational Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally. Orison Swett Marden brain worry thinking We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves. Orison Swett Marden lifts climbs vision You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion. Orison Swett Marden clean honesty love 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 failure determination men To think you can creates the force that can. Orison Swett Marden effort force thinking There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named. Orison Swett Marden gratitude grateful powerful There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back. Orison Swett Marden perseverance inspirational life
