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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
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