Napoleon Hill Quotes
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The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
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Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
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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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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 are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
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Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.
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No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
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The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith.
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The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.
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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
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Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.
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People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.
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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.
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Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth.
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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.
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Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.