Napoleon Hill Quotes
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The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it.
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Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.
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Live each day as if it were your last, and you’ll develop a keen respect for opportunity.
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You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.
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The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.
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Capability means imagination...
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Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
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You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.
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Faith is the head chemist of the mind.
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Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.
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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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The mind requires regular use to remain strong.
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The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
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Whatever you think today becomes what you are tomorrow.
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I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of success, and discovered that each of them had received guidance from unknown sources, although many of them were reluctant to admit this discovery.
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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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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.
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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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If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.
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If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
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Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!
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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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Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving.