“If you must slander someone, don't speak it - but write it - write it in the sand, near the water's edge!”
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Napoleon Hill
“Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Taking an inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. This handicap can be surmounted - and timidity translated into courage - through the aid of the principle of autosuggestion.”
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Napoleon Hill
Lack of persistence. Most of us are good “starters” but poor “finishers” of everything we begin. Moreover, people are prone to give up at the first signs of defeat. There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that “Old Man Failure” finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Do not wait. The time will never be “just right.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Every adversity, every unpleasant circumstance, every failure, and every physical pain carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can’t.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Love is, without question, life’s greatest experience.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Do your job precisely as if you were your own boss, and sooner or later you will be.”
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Napoleon Hill
“It’s a sure thing that you will not finish if you don’t start. The most difficult part of any job is getting started.”
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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
