Napoleon Hill Quotes
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Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.
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The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
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If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.
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It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.
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It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start.
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When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.
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[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.
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You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.
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The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.
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Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.
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You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.
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Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.
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The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.
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The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
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Scars are wisdom in disguise.
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Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.
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The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
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There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.
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Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.
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Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.
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Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Are you satisfied with where you are and the direction you are going? If not, take control of your life and change whatever needs to be changed. You and only you have the power to do this. You can change your world!
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The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.