“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things. Your mind is your spiritual estate! Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled. You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Desire backed by faith, pushed reason aside, and inspired me to carry on.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If the first plan you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan. If this new plan fails to work, replace it, in turn, with still another, and so on until you find a plan which does work.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Sexual overindulgence may not only destroy reason and willpower, but it may also lead to either temporary or permanent mental dysfunction.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself”
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Napoleon Hill
“More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth itself.”
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Napoleon Hill
“A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious”
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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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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.”
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Napoleon Hill
“THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you can’t manage your own mental attitude, what makes you think you can manage others?”
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Napoleon Hill
“It is always safe to talk about others as long as you speak of their good qualities.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Ships and railways do not spring up from the earth and function automatically. They come in response to the call of civilisation, through the labour and ingenuity and organising ability of people who have imagination, faith, enthusiasm, decision and persistence! These people are known as capitalists. They are motivated by the desire to build, construct, achieve, provide useful service, earn profits and accumulate riches. And, because they provide service without which there would be no civilisation, they put themselves in the way of great riches.”
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Napoleon Hill
