Napoleon Hill Quotes
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The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.
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When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
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If you must let someone down, be sure it isn’t the friend who helped you up when you were down.
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What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.
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Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
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Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.
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Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
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Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.
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The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.
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Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
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Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.
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If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.
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The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.
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The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
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The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
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Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.