“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Before you can achieve success in the higher and broader sense you must gain such thorough control over yourself that you will be a person of poise.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Before we can master an enemy, we must know its name, its habits, and its place of abode.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious experiences, and all sensations which reach the brain through the five physical senses.”
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Napoleon Hill
“In the world of physical matter, whether one is looking at the largest star that floats through the heavens or the smallest grain of sand to be found on earth, the object under observation is but an organized collection of molecules, atoms and electrons revolving around one another at inconceivable speed. Every particle of physical matter is in a continuous state of highly agitated motion. Nothing is ever still, although nearly all physical matter may appear, to the physical eye, to be motionless. There is no "solid" physical matter.”
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Napoleon Hill
“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
“far as science has been able to determine, the entire universe consists of but two elements—matter and energy
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Napoleon Hill
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in the form of an impulse of thought.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.”
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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
“One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word "impossible." He knows all the rules which will NOT work. He knows all the things which CANNOT be done.”
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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
“He had no money to begin with. He had but little education. He had no influence. But he did have initiative, faith and the will to win.”
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Napoleon Hill
