“A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.”
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Napoleon Hill
“accumulation of money cannot be left to chance, good fortune and luck. One must realise that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring and planning before they acquired money.”
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Napoleon Hill
“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”
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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
“You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Find at least one person each day, and more if possible, in whom you see some good quality that is worthy of praise, and praise it. Remember, however, that this praise must not be in the nature of cheap, insincere flattery; it must be genuine. Speak your words of praise with such earnestness that they will impress those to whom you speak. Then watch what happens. You will have rendered those whom you praise a decided benefit of great value to them,”
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Napoleon Hill
“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as”
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Napoleon Hill
“the starting point of all achievement is desire”
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Napoleon Hill
“ASK any wise man what he most desires and he will, more than likely, say "more wisdom.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Taking an inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. This handicap can be surmounted - and timidity translated into courage - through the aid of the principle of autosuggestion.”
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Napoleon Hill
“More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth itself.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Employers who understand human nature, get the best there is in men, not by criticism, but by constructive suggestion.”
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Napoleon Hill
“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”
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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
“The object of this book is to help all who seek it, to learn the art of changing their minds from failure consciousness to success consciousness.”
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Napoleon Hill