
Seize the very first opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.
- Topic: Action, Habits, Opportunity
- Location: Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.
The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
To succeed, jump as quickly as opportunity as you do at conclusions.
Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.
