Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
by Napoleon Hill

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- 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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill

Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill

Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- 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

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

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.

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

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

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

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca

My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

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

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

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 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

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

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

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- 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

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

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

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie