奧裏森·馬登/Orison Marden
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 confdence 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 allflled?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 beneft 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.
缺乏機會，向來都是膽小懦弱和優柔寡斷者的借口。機會！生活中無處不在。
無論中學還是大學裏的每堂課，都是一個機會；考試是生活給予的機會；每一次的事務處理是機會。生活給予人們禮貌待人，誠實寬厚的機會，更是廣交朋友的大好機會；生活對個人自信度的考驗也是個極好的機會。
個人能力和誠信所負擔的每一份責任都是無價的。隻有奮鬥不息，才有生存的空間；隻有不斷追求，提升能力，成功的機會才會紛至遝來。
年輕人，你們為何整天無所事事？難道在你們來到這個世界之前，所有的土地都被占據了？難道地球的產出已不再增多？難道所有的位置都坐滿了？難道所有的職位都無空缺了？難道機會已消失殆盡？難道國家的資源已被全部開發完畢？難道所有的自然奧秘你已掌握？難道你毫無辦法抓住這稍縱即逝的時光提高自己，或者使他人受益嗎？
機會不會主動垂青於你。學習拿破侖，在“不可能”中創造機會。像所有戰時或和平時期的領袖一樣，為自己創造成功的機會。人人都須創造機會，為值得付出之事盡心盡力。好機會，對於懶惰之人毫無益處，而勤奮卻能點石成金。
心靈小語
在這個世界上，獲得成功的人是那些努力尋找機會的人。如果找不到機會，他們就去創造機會。
W詞匯筆記
vacillate['v?sileit]v.遊移不定；躊躇；猶豫
例 She vacillated between hope and fear.
她時而抱有希望，時而心存恐懼。
manly['m?nli]adj.像男人的；強壯的；適合男人的
例 They heard a manly voice shout：“Vive la France!”
他們聽到一個男子的聲音喊道：“法蘭西萬歲！”
aptitude['?ptitju:d]n.才能；資質
例 That student has an aptitude for mathematics.
那個學生有數學方麵的天賦。
utilize[ju:'tilaiz]v.利用
例 In a magazine you can utilize a picture of your product.
在雜誌裏，你可以用你的產品的照片。
S小試身手
缺乏機會，向來都是膽小懦弱和優柔寡斷者的借口。
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個人能力和誠信所負擔的每一份責任都是無價的。
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好機會對於懶惰之人毫無益處，而勤奮卻能點石成金。
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P短語家族
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind.
lack of：缺乏
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Don't wait for your opportunity.
wait for：等候；等待
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