You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
Og MandinoRead
Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
Interpretation
Opportunities can be subtle and easily overlooked, but they hold the potential for significant achievements.
This quote emphasizes the importance of being aware of small opportunities that may arise in everyday life. Often, these minor opportunities can lead to significant accomplishments if one is prepared and attentive, suggesting that one should always be ready to seize the moment when it presents itself.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a motivational speech about achieving success.
You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.
I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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