Orison Swett Marden Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in

Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in

Opportunity, Tuning, Broadcasting

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

Integrity, Mean, Opportunity

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.

Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity, Excuse, Weak

Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Hour of Opportunity”, p.24, Buy Direct (Audio Included)

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity, Men, He Man

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

Orison Swett Marden

Humble, Opportunity, Simple

Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Orison Swett Marden

Education, Opportunity, Preparation

Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.196, e-artnow

Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.

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Opportunity, Self, Preparation

Orison Swett Marden, G. R. Devitt (1901). “Success Library”

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Orison Swett Marden

Country, Eye, Opportunity

Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.472, e-artnow

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.

Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity, Looks, Bigger

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity, Mind, Clients

Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.

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Opportunity, Men, Race

Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.17, FV Éditions

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Orison Swett Marden

Success, Honesty, Opportunity

Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.

Orison Swett Marden

Sleep, Opportunity, Men

Orison Swett Marden (1897). “Rising in the World: Or, Architects of Fate; a Book Designed to Inspire Youth to Character Building, Self-culture and Noble Achievement”

Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.

Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity, Gone, Careless

Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.97, e-artnow

Orison Swett Marden Quotes about Opportunity

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