“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.”

The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.

Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.

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.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

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.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

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

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

Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

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.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Normalize not giving second chances for mistakes that were inexcusable.

I would throw down roots with you if I ever had the chance. We’d grow strong in tender shoots, and bloom in burning hands.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

If you never get criticized, chances are you aren’t getting anything done.

A split second can ruin or boost the sequence.

Take chances, and love will find its way to you.

Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.