Orison Swett
Orison Swett
opportunity tuning broadcasting
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in
time duration waste
We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.
challenges looks obstacles
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
strong successful men
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
success men done
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
education opportunity preparation
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.
wall past everyday
You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you.
opportunity self preparation
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.
conquer
Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
inspirational motivational responsibility
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
self inspire trying
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
hands mind excellence
Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
success struggle achievement
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
self-esteem vision higher
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.