Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Sometimes you have to create your own chance.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

I don't care what the depth chart is. I don't care what I'm on. I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to seize every opportunity that I get, because that's the most important thing.

Opportunity does not always knock twice. You have to make some of your own opportunities and you have to go in and grab those.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

You have to make it happen.

The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won't do me any good.

I make my own opportunities no matter what.