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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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Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- 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
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
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
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.
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
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
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
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 great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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 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
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
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
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
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