Quotes Added in February 2008

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.Napoleon Hill

• decisiveness

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through "opinions" and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through "opinions" or ridicule.Napoleon Hill

• self esteem
• criticism
• associates

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.Napoleon Hill

• thought

The starting point of all achievement is desire.Napoleon Hill

• desire
• achievement

Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.Napoleon Hill

• fear
• habit
• persistence

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.Eleanor Roosevelt

• imitation
• uniqueness

Keep in mind that you are always saying 'no' to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.Stephen Covey

• priorities
• time management

Style is being yourself, but on purpose.Patricia Fripp

• fashion

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.Samuel Johnson

• sadness
• grief