“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
“We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.”
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Napoleon Hill
“In parting, I would remind you that “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
“Desire The Starting Point of All Achievement: the First Step Toward Riches”
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Napoleon Hill
“Halpin deserves credit for REFUSING TO COMPROMISE WITH LIFE BY ACCEPTING AND KEEPING A JOB HE DID NOT WANT,”
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Napoleon Hill
“Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit!”
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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
“Sound character is our greatest asset because it provides the power with which we may ride the emergencies of life instead of going down under them.”
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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
“Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the "time to be right" to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be "just right.”
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Napoleon Hill
“One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act for yourself.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.”
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Napoleon Hill
“No one could ride a horse if the horse discovered its real strength. The same thing is true for people.”
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Napoleon Hill
