“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
“The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be, the pattern-makers of civilisation.”
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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
“The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Success begins with a fellow’s will— It’s all in the state of mind.”
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Napoleon Hill
“It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature.”
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Napoleon Hill
“thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.”
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Napoleon Hill
“More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self”
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Napoleon Hill
“But he did have initiative, faith and the will to win.”
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Napoleon Hill
“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
“This is a capitalistic country, it was developed through the use of capital, and we who claim the right to partake of the blessings of freedom and opportunity, we who seek to accumulate riches here, may as well know that neither riches nor opportunity would be available to us if organized capital had not provided these benefits. For more than twenty years it has been a somewhat popular and growing pastime for radicals, self-seeking politicians, racketeers, crooked labor leaders, and on occasion religious leaders, to take pot-shots at “Wall Street, the money changers, and big business.” The practice became so general that we witnessed during the business depression, the unbelievable sight of high government officials lining up with the cheap politicians, and labor leaders, with the openly avowed purpose of throttling the system which has made Industrial America the richest country on earth. The line-up was so general and so well organized that it prolonged the worst depression America has ever known. It cost millions of men their jobs, because those jobs were inseparably a part of the industrial and capitalistic system which form the very backbone of the nation.
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Napoleon Hill
“Visualization Of, and Belief in Attainment of Desire: The Second Step toward Riches”
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Napoleon Hill
“Desire backed by faith, pushed reason aside, and inspired me to carry on.”
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Napoleon Hill
