“The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Know your own mind and you will be as wise as the sages.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in thought.”
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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
“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
“Finally, he lifted his head slowly, got up and walked to the door. Then he turned around, came back, laid his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘My boy, you will need much courage if you remain steadfast in carrying out your purpose in life. But remember, when difficulties overtake you, the common people have common sense. Adversity will develop it.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
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Napoleon Hill
“When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form, and from a different direction than Barnes had expected. 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
“If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth.”
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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
“Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and firmly. Unsuccessful people make decisions slowly, and they change them often.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Impossible,” said he, “is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.”
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Napoleon Hill
“most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Kill the habit of worry, in all its forms, by reaching a general, blanket decision that nothing which life has to offer is worth the price of worry.”
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Napoleon Hill
“everything you touch will begin to transmute itself into an asset for your benefit.”
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Napoleon Hill
