A Quote by Napoleon Hill

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island. — © Napoleon Hill
Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.
If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.
When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.
I live on a lonely culinary island, built on (very thin) bedrock consisting of things I know, or believe, my family will eat. It is a small island. Fortunately, nachos are on that island with me, and nothing gets my family fired up like nachos for lunch.
When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness
I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will and originality. Since anything physical can be mental, that island can be your home. Turn off the electromagnetic waves being forced upon you, the countless invisible forces coming at you all the time.
My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
In the summer of 2007, I was in New York for some meetings and... I rented a car and just drove to Staten Island to take a glance and remind myself about it. I ended up staying a couple of days there in a hotel and I've been all over the island several times since.
California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.
You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.
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