Napoleon Hill Quotes
Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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I am an ordinary person.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
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It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.
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All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure – because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society – then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.
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I now understand the need for faith-pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith-as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.
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I could count on one hand the number of things we were able to save.
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A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a truth of the gospel until you keep it. The Sabbath day is not a holy day unless you observe it. . . . A friend is not a friend unless you defend him.
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Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.
