“What has chance ever done in the world? Has it built any cities? Has it invented any telephones, and telegraphs? Has it built any steamships, established any universities, any asylums, any hospitals? Was there any chance in Cæsar’s crossing the Rubicon? What had chance to do with Napoleon’s career, with Wellington’s, or Grant’s…? Every battle was won before it was begun. What had luck to do with Thermopylæ, Trafalgar, Gettysburg? Our successes we ascribe to ourselves; our failures to destiny.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you really are smarter than others, show them with your actions.”
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Napoleon Hill
“It may interest you to know that Marconi’s “friends” had him taken into custody, and examined in a psychopathic hospital, when he announced he had discovered a principle through which he could send messages through the air, without the aid of wires, or other direct physical means of communication. The dreamers of today fare better.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Through repetition of this procedure, you voluntarily create thought habits which are favorable to your efforts to transmute desire into its monetary equivalent.”
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Napoleon Hill
“no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty”
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Napoleon Hill
“FAITH and FEAR make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.”
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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
“A negative mind never attracts happiness or material success, but it will attract their opposites.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance. Never, in the history of America has there been so great an opportunity for practical dreamers as now exists.
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Napoleon Hill
“Money is as shy and elusive as the “old time” maiden.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us towards our destiny.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice, gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep, or the canary”
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Napoleon Hill
