“The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.”
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Napoleon Hill
“this power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Very well, Broadway, you may whip some, but not me. I’m going to force you to give up.”
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Napoleon Hill
“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The Creator never singles out an individual for an important service to mankind without first testing him, through struggle, in proportion to the nature of the service he is to render.”
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Napoleon Hill
“accumulation of money cannot be left to chance, good fortune and luck. One must realise that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring and planning before they acquired money.”
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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
“Fortunate is the young woman who learns this great truth and keeps her lover always guessing, always on the defensive lest he may lose her
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Napoleon Hill
“Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by “opinions” when you reach decisions, you will not succeed in any undertaking, much less in that of transmuting Your own desire into money.”
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Napoleon Hill
“No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes
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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
“Find at least one person each day, and more if possible, in whom you see some good quality that is worthy of praise, and praise it. Remember, however, that this praise must not be in the nature of cheap, insincere flattery; it must be genuine. Speak your words of praise with such earnestness that they will impress those to whom you speak. Then watch what happens. You will have rendered those whom you praise a decided benefit of great value to them,”
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Napoleon Hill
“A positive mind finds a way it can be done. A negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.”
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Napoleon Hill
“There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit”
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Napoleon Hill
