“Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence staked their lives on the decision to affix their signatures to that document.”
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Napoleon Hill
“You probably know that you are not the only man who has had to sacrifice immediate monetary remuneration for the sake of gathering knowledge, for in truth your experience has been that of every philosopher from the time of Socrates down to the present.”
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Napoleon Hill
“In the world of physical matter, whether one is looking at the largest star that floats through the heavens or the smallest grain of sand to be found on earth, the object under observation is but an organized collection of molecules, atoms and electrons revolving around one another at inconceivable speed. Every particle of physical matter is in a continuous state of highly agitated motion. Nothing is ever still, although nearly all physical matter may appear, to the physical eye, to be motionless. There is no "solid" physical matter.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
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Napoleon Hill
“Imagination is a faculty of the mind which can be cultivated, developed, extended and broadened by use.”
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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
“The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan."
And
"A man whose mind is filled with fear not only destroys his own chances of intelligent action, but he transmits these destructive vibrations to the minds of all who come in contact with him, and destroys, also, their chances.”
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Napoleon Hill
“FAITH and FEAR make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Remember that your dominating thoughts attract,
through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most
convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.”
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Napoleon Hill
“A definite purpose, backed by absolute faith, is a form of wisdom and wisdom in action produces positive results.”
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Napoleon Hill
“PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Success comes to those who become SUCCESS CONSCIOUS. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become FAILURE CONSCIOUS.
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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
