“He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy’s country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them. Addressing his men before the first battle, he said, “You see the boats going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win! We now have no choice—we win, or we perish! They won.
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Napoleon Hill
“Each of us is what we are because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which we permit to occupy our mind.
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Napoleon Hill
“It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application towards some worthy end.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.”
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Napoleon Hill
The greatest among ye shall be the servant of all”
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Napoleon Hill
“Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself”
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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
“Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and firmly. Unsuccessful people make decisions slowly, and they change them often.”
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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
“The fear of criticism robs man of his initiative, destroys his power of imagination, limits his individuality, takes away his self-reliance, and does him damage in a hundred other ways.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.”
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Napoleon Hill
“One of the largest industrial companies, the leader in its field, in writing to Mr. Moore concerning prospective seniors at the college, said: “‘ We are interested primarily in finding men who can make exceptional progress in management work. For this reason we emphasize qualities of character, intelligence and personality far more than specific educational background.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
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Napoleon Hill
