You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
Napoleon HillThe individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.
Napoleon HillYou might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.
Napoleon HillWhen your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon HillThe strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
Napoleon HillNothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.
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