The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind.
意志懦弱猶豫不決的人，老是以缺少機會作為借口。
Opportunities!
機會!
Every life is full of them.
在每個人的生涯當中，無處不在。
Every lesson in school or college is an opportunity.
學校里的每一節課都是一次機遇。
Every examination is a chance in life.
每一場測驗都是人生的契機。
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.
每一次商務往來都是一次機會--一次禮貌待人的機會，一次果敢行事的機會，一次老實取信的機會，一次廣交友人的機會。
Every proof of confidence in you is a great opportunity.
每一份對你的信賴，對你都是一次莫大的機會。
Every responsibility thrust upon your strength and your honor is priceless.
基于你的才華跟名譽而寄托你的每一份義務，都是無價的。
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.
生存是斗爭賦予的特權，而當你如男子漢個別邂逅那份殊榮時，一個個施展你聰慧才智、助你獲取勝利的機會便會相繼而至，令你應付自如。
Young men and women, why do you stand here all the day idle?
年青人啊，為何你們整日裹足不前而虛擲時間?
Was the land all occupied before you were born?
莫非在你們誕生之前，每一寸土地都已被他人所盤踞?
Has the earth ceased to yield its increase?
難道地球已不再繁殖生息?
Are the seats all taken?
難道所有的席位都已另有歸屬?
The positions all filled?
所有的職位都已人滿為患?
The chances all gone?
所有的機會都一去不返?
Are the resources of your country fully developed?
難道你海內的資源都已開發殆盡?
Are the secrets of nature all mastered?
難道大天然的神秘都已一目了然?
Is there no way in which you can utilize these passing moments to improve yourself or benefit another?
豈非你無奈捉住這些轉瞬即逝的機會來改良自我或者造福別人?
Don't wait for your opportunity.
切莫株守機會。
Make it-make it as Napoleon made his in a hundred "impossible" situations.
去創造它，正如拿破侖在無數次"絕"境中創造本人逢生的機會一樣。
Make it, as all leaders of men, in war and in peace have, made their chances of success.
去創造它，正如戰斗或者和平年代的首領們創造他們獲得成功的機會那樣。
Make it, as every man must, who would accomplish anything worth the effort.
去發明它，人人必需如斯，任何人都能取得應有的回報。
Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.
對怠惰來講，天賜良機也會子虛烏有;對于勤懇而言，即便是微不足道的機會，也會變得金光閃閃!
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