Napoleon Hill Quotes
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
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I like being an editor, and I know how to make a magazine.
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I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
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It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
