“Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Failure so often hates the very sight of success. Speaking with successful men, I have noticed they speak in complimentary terms of other men who are succeeding. Their attitude is not one of envy, but of willingness to learn from others.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you really are smarter than others, show them with your actions.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
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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
“PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.”
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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
“Repetition or affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith.”
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Napoleon Hill
“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 INDECISION!”
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Napoleon Hill
“The desire for sexual expression is inborn and natural. The desire cannot, and should not be submerged or eliminated. But it should be given an outlet through forms of expression which enrich the body, mind, and spirit of man.”
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Napoleon Hill
“El curso de las cosas acontece para enseñarnos la fe. Sólo tenemos que obedecer. Hay claves para cada uno de nosotros, y si escuchamos con humildad, oiremos la palabra justa”
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Napoleon Hill
“Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.”
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Napoleon Hill
