"Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation..." - Quote by Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit.
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“Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.”
“Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care”
“When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.”
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“When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.”
“Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.”
“Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.”
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“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
“O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?”
“The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.”