Napoleon Hill Quotes
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
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There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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I don't see the point in working just to be working.
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Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.
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I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
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One of the big misconceptions is that affairs or trysts are flings about sex. And sometimes they are, but much more often they are about desire. And that is very different. The desire to feel special, to feel seen, to feel appreciated, to be laughed at or with. The desire to be desired. That does not manifest in a sexual act per se. Affairs make you feel alive. Alchemy means it's not about the actual sex, but the sexuality, the energy, the aura. It's the imagination and anticipation of it as much or instead of the actual experience of it.
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Liberty means more to me than life itself.
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We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.
