“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Do not expect something for nothing. Be willing to give an equivalent value for all that you desire, and include in your plans a definite provision for doing so.”
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Napoleon Hill
“As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “One single idea may have greater weight than the labor of all the men, animals and engines for a century.”
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Napoleon Hill
“More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.”
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Napoleon Hill
“No one could ride a horse if the horse discovered its real strength. The same thing is true for people.”
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Napoleon Hill
“knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money. Lack of understanding of this fact has been the source of confusion to millions of people who falsely believe that “knowledge is power.” It is nothing of the sort! 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
“Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach”
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Napoleon Hill
“Life is strange, and often imponderable! Both the successes and the failures have their roots in simple experiences.
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Napoleon Hill
“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a “quitter.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.”
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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
“Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Opinions” are the cheapest commodities on earth.”
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Napoleon Hill
