Napoleon Hill Quotes
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They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.
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Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.
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There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.
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A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
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Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.
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Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".
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Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
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If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another...until you succeed.
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Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
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Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
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You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.
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Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.
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Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.
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Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit.
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A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.
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Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
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If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day’s work you have done today?
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Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.
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The Master Mind principle: Two or more people actively engaged in the pursuit of a definite purpose with a positive mental attitude, constitute an unbeatable force.
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Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.
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No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.
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Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.
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Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.
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Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.