Napoleon Hill Quotes
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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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If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you will never have real wealth based on peace of mind.
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People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.
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First you get a habit, then it gets you.
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Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
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Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
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To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.
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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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Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
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If your environment is not to your liking, change it!
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Take inventory of yourself, see if any remnants of fear are standing in your way. Then you may grow... because nothing, absolutely nothing, can stand in your way.
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Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.
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Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.
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Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.
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A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.
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Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.
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Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.
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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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If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!
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You can always become the person you would have liked to be.
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No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
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Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats.
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Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.