Napoleon Hill Quotes
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.
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Kernik had stumbled on an immutable truth, a truth older than the world. Priests claimed the gods made men, but this was not so. Men made the gods. Firstly, by forming them in clay, by chipping them from stone. Secondly, and more importantly, by believing in them, believing in them utterly.
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There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
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I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.
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Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!
