“the starting point of all achievement is desire”
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Napoleon Hill
“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Experience has proven that the best-educated people are often those who are known as ‘self-made’ or self-educated. It takes more than a university degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated has learned to get whatever they want in life without violating the rights of others. Education consists not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently applied. People are paid not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with what they know.”
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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
“Power is organized effort, as has already been stated! Success is based upon power!”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you really are smarter than others, show them with your actions.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.”
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Napoleon Hill
“When the emotion of romance is added to those of love and sex, the obstructions between the finite mind of man and Infinite Intelligence are removed.”
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Napoleon Hill
“My complaint is not against the work that the churches have done, but the work that they could have done through leadership that was based upon the principle of co-ordinated, co-operative effort which would have carried civilization at least a thousand years ahead of where it is today. It is not yet too late for such leadership.”
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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
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The emotion of sex is an “irresistible force,” against which there can be no such opposition as an “immovable body.” When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a super power for action
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Napoleon Hill
“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 INDECISION!”
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Napoleon Hill
“You may as well know, also that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
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Napoleon Hill
