“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
“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
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.”
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Napoleon Hill
“It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Procrastination, the opposite of decision, is a common enemy which practically every man must conquer.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The Golden Rule means we should do unto others as we would wish them to do unto us if our positions were reversed.”
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Napoleon Hill
“No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.”
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Napoleon Hill
“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.
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Napoleon Hill
“Remember, it is not necessary for others to fail in order that you may succeed. The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Thoughts which are mixed with any of the feelings of emotions, constitute a "magnetic" force which attracts other similar, or related thoughts.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be “attracted.”
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Napoleon Hill
“There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it.
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Napoleon Hill
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
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Napoleon Hill
