“an intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted into material rewards”
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Napoleon Hill
“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
“Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through “opinions” and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through “opinions” or ridicule.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Some who will read this, will believe that no one can think and grow rich. They cannot think in terms of riches, because their thought habits have been steeped in poverty, want, misery, failure, and defeat.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.”
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Napoleon Hill
both success and failure are largely the results of habit!”
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Napoleon Hill
“an intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted into its physical counterpart by the application of known principles.”
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Napoleon Hill
“What has chance ever done in the world? Has it built any cities? Has it invented any telephones, and telegraphs? Has it built any steamships, established any universities, any asylums, any hospitals? Was there any chance in Cæsar’s crossing the Rubicon? What had chance to do with Napoleon’s career, with Wellington’s, or Grant’s…? Every battle was won before it was begun. What had luck to do with Thermopylæ, Trafalgar, Gettysburg? Our successes we ascribe to ourselves; our failures to destiny.”
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Napoleon Hill
“the money which is essential for the conduct of business is as worthless as a sand dune, until it has been mixed with efficient “brains.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds”
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Napoleon Hill
“No man is ever whipped, until he quits— in his own mind.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Every man who has accumulated a great fortune, has recognized the existence of this stream of life. It consists of one’s thinking process. The positive emotions of thought form the side of the stream which carries one to fortune. The negative emotions form the side which carries one down to poverty.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Success come to those who become success conscious.”
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Napoleon Hill
