“Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.”
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Napoleon Hill
“When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form, and from a different direction than Barnes had expected. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The day of the “go-getter” has passed. He has been supplanted by the “go-giver.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Fear of poverty is a state of mind, nothing else! But it is sufficient to destroy one’s chances of achievement in any undertaking, a truth which became painfully evident during the depression.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through “opinions” and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through “opinions” or ridicule.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Riches begin in the form of thought! The amount is limited only by the person in whose mind the thought is put into motion. Faith removes limitations!”
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Napoleon Hill
“It is one of the strangest anomalies of life that the absence of fear, and not formal education or brilliance of mind, is the major cause of individual success.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Yet before another ten years had passed, he was dictator of all Arabia, ruler of Mecca, and the head of a New World religion which was to sweep to the Danube and the Pyrenees before exhausting the impetus he gave it. That impetus was threefold: the power of words, the efficacy of prayer and man’s kinship with God.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Self-respect is the best means of getting the respect of others.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The leaders in every walk of life decide quickly, and firmly. That is the major reason why they are leaders. The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.”
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Napoleon Hill
