Napoleon Hill Quotes

When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.

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• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

  

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  • Life
  • You
  • Life Is A

• O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

  

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  • Mind
  • Power
  • Control

• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  

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  • Time
  • Right
  • Wait

• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

  

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  • Mind
  • Success
  • Desire

• I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

  

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  • Life
  • Action
  • Purpose

• You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

  

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  • Life
  • Control
  • Environment

• Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

  

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  • Born
  • Sacrifice
  • Achievement

• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

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  • Character
  • Man
  • Persistence

• First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

  

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  • Reality
  • Ideas
  • Imagination

• No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

  

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  • Success
  • Failure
  • Find Yourself

• You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.

  

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  • Mind
  • Control
  • Desire

• MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

  

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  • Imagination
  • Lies
  • Development

• Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.

  

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  • Time
  • Mind
  • Law

• Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

  

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  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Wish

• Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

  

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  • Happiness
  • Doing
  • Found

• Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.

  

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  • Strong
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

  

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  • Water
  • Speak
  • Edge

• Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

  

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  • Mind
  • Success
  • Words

• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

  

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  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Victory

• All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

  

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  • Great
  • Simple
  • Understood

• Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

  

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  • Time
  • Work
  • May

• The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

  

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  • Man
  • More
  • Will

• No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

  

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  • Man
  • Succeed
  • Line

• Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

  

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  • Failure
  • Adversity
  • Heartache