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God has given us control over one thing in our lives - our thoughts.

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Napoleon Hill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1883
Born: October 26
Died: 1970
Died: November 8
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Wise County
Virginia
Oliver Napoleon Hill
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Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
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Watch the one ahead of you, and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.
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Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth in helping others we help ourselves and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy.
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The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
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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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Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.
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You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.
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Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.
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An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
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Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
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If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it!
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.
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Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
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The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.
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No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.
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