“TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.
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Napoleon Hill
“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.”
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Napoleon Hill
“One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Another weakness found in altogether too many people, is the habit of measuring everything, and everyone, by their own impressions and beliefs.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”
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Napoleon Hill
“until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve; not crude determinations; not errant”
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Napoleon Hill
“We all have negative thoughts. They are impossible to avoid. But ongoing negative thoughts...That's a choice.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Some individuals appear to be “allergic” to honest work, but opportunity is equally allergic to them.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”
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Napoleon Hill
“war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Faith is the “eternal elixir” which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought!”
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Napoleon Hill
“Do not expect something for nothing. Be willing to give an equivalent value for all that you desire, and include in your plans a definite provision for doing so.”
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Napoleon Hill
both success and failure are largely the results of habit!”
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Napoleon Hill
