“Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions!”
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Napoleon Hill
“their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action.”
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Napoleon Hill
“A negative mind never attracts happiness or material success, but it will attract their opposites.”
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Napoleon Hill
“You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.”
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Napoleon Hill
“everything you touch will begin to transmute itself into an asset for your benefit.”
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Napoleon Hill
“as there is a close relationship between one’s mental attitude and one’s physical environment. The effects of environment so vitally influence those who work in factories, stores and offices, that employers are gradually realizing the importance of creating an environment that inspires and encourages the workers.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.”
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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.
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Napoleon Hill
“The only limitation is that which one sets up in one’s own mind.”
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Napoleon Hill
“You were instructed, in the last of the six steps described in the chapter on Desire, to read ALOUD twice daily the WRITTEN statement of your DESIRE FOR MONEY, and to SEE AND FEEL yourself ALREADY in possession of the money! By following these instructions, you communicate the object of your DESIRE directly to your SUBCONSCIOUS mind in a spirit of absolute FAITH
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Napoleon Hill
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.”
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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
“Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Remember, also, that every time you open your mouth in the presence of a person who has an abundance of knowledge, you display to that person, your exact stock of knowledge, or your LACK of it!”
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Napoleon Hill
