“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven; the fated sky Gives us free scope; and only backward pulls Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. How much I could do if I only tried. * (1803-1873) English dramatist, novelist, and politician.”
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Napoleon Hill
“knowledge is power.” It is nothing of the sort! Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.”
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both success and failure are largely the results of habit!”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.”
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Napoleon Hill
“A real student will not merely read this book, he will absorb its contents and make them his own.”
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Napoleon Hill
“La indecisión se cristaliza en la duda, ¡los dos se mezclan y se convierten en miedo!”
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Napoleon Hill
“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.”
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“Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.”
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Napoleon Hill
“That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.”
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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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“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE.”
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“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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“Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.”
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“one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.”
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