"Before you can control conditions, you must..." - Quote by Napoleon Hill
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
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“You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.”
“There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it”
“Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.”
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“The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.”
“Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.”
“Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.”
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“A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
“High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.”
“Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.”