Make the opportunity
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind.
Opportunities!
Every life is full of them.
Every lesson in school or college is an opportunity.
Every examination is a chance in life.
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.
Every proof of confidence in you is a great opportunity.
Every responsibility thrust upon your strength and your honor is priceless.
Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.
Young men and women, why do you stand here all the day idle?
Was the land all occupied before you were born?
Has the earth ceased to yield its increase?
Are the seats all taken?
The positions all filled?
The chances all gone?
Are the resources of your country fully developed?
Are the secrets of nature all mastered?
Is there no way in which you can utilize these passing moments to improve yourself or benefit another?
Don't wait for your opportunity.
Make it-make it as Napoleon made his in a hundred "impossible" situations.
Make it, as all leaders of men, in war and in peace have, made their chances of success.
Make it, as every man must, who would accomplish anything worth the effort.
Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.
相关单词：manly
manly解释：adj.有男子气概的；adv.男子般地，果断地
manly例句：
The boy walked with a confident manly stride.这男孩以自信的男人步伐行走。
He set himself manly tasks and expected others to follow his example.他给自己定下了男子汉的任务，并希望别人效之。
相关单词：aptitude
aptitude解释：n.(学习方面的)才能，资质，天资
aptitude例句：
That student has an aptitude for mathematics.那个学生有数学方面的天赋。
As a child,he showed an aptitude for the piano.在孩提时代，他显露出对于钢琴的天赋。
相关单词：fully
fully解释：adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地
fully例句：
The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
相关单词：utilize
utilize解释：vt.使用，利用
utilize例句：
The cook will utilize the leftover ham bone to make soup.厨师要用吃剩的猪腿骨做汤。
You must utilize all available resources.你必须利用一切可以得到的资源。
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