Napoleon Hill Quotes
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From Christ on down to Edison, the men who have achieved most have been those who met with the most stubborn forms of temporary defeat. This would seem to justify the conclusion that Infinite Intelligence has a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the opportunity to render useful service in a noteworthy fashion.
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No one can keep you down but yourself.
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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.
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We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
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We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.
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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
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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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I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.
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No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
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Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.
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Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
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A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.
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If you are sure you are right, you need not worry what the world thinks.
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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
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The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).
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Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.
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Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.
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I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.
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Indecision is the seedling of fear.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!
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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.