Napoleon Hill

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• Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you.

  Think and Grow Rich (1938)

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• Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  A maxim of Hill’s, specifically cited as such, in Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960), co-authored with W. Clement Stone, Ch. 14, p. 222.

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• You have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts.

  Think and Grow Rich (1938)

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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