"To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success."

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Source : Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.263, Penguin

Wallace D. Wattles

#Firsts Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.”
“A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.”
“Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.”
“I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.”
“Those who have been intoxicated with power... canÂ never willingly abandon it.”
“A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.”
“Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.”

Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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