Napoleon Hill Quotes
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A negative attitude toward others can never bring me success.
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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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It takes a habit to replace a habit.
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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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The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.
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Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth.
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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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You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.
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The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.
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You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.
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Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.
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Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
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You either control your mind or it controls you.
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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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Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!
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When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.
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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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There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.
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Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.
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There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
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Those who can't take directions graciously have no business giving them.
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Faith is the head chemist of the mind.
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The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.
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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.