Napoleon Hill Quotes

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

Napoleon Hill

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• Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Goal
  • Obstacles