Napoleon Hill Quotes
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To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.
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Render more service than you are paid for and eventually you will be paid more for less services rendered.
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No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.
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The only person to get even with are those who have helped you.
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Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.
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The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.
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Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.
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If you want prosperity, you must refuse to accept any circumstances that lead toward poverty.
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Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
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Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.
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The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .
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The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
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The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.
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When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.
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Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.
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Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
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Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.
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Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.
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The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.
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Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
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When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway.
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The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.
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If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.
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Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.