“If life hands you a lemon, don’t complain, but instead make lemonade to sell those who are thirsty from complaining.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Nature has endowed man with absolute control over but one thing, and that is thought.”
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Napoleon Hill
“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Her entire life has served as evidence that no one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Fear of competition from followers. The leader who fears that one of his followers may take his position is practically sure to realize that fear sooner or later.”
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Napoleon Hill
“I am master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
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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
“It should be remembered also that the outlook from the bottom is not so very bright or encouraging. It has a tendency to kill off ambition. We call it “getting into a rut,” which means that we accept our fate because we form the HABIT of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we cease to try to throw it off.”
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Napoleon Hill
“It is always safe to talk about others as long as you speak of their good qualities.”
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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 a burning desire to win, essential to success.
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Napoleon Hill
Lack of concentration of effort. The “jack-of-all-trades” seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.”
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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
