Napoleon Hill Quotes
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Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.
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If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel.
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Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.
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Sex energy is the creative energy of all creative geniuses.
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The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.
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Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.
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Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.
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The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.
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Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.
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IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.
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I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
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Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.
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Here is an old Oriental proverb: *A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.* It is difficult to anticipate just how a situation will develop in every detail until you take a step forward and try out your present equipment. Then, if weaknesses appear, you will have clues as to how to strengthen your resources. No scheme or plan is perfect. Perfection is a process, not an end.
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You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.
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When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.
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Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.
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You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts.
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The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
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Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.
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Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
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The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.
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The void holds a form of energy moving at an inconceivably high rate of vibration, and that void is filled with a form of power/energy which adapts itself to the nature of the thoughts we hold in our minds; and influences us, in natural ways, to transmute our thoughts into their physical equivalent.
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If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.