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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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No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- 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
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
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- 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
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
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
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
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
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- 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
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
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.
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
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
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