Top 100 Napoleon Hill Quotes
#1. Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
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#2. A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word "impossible," and neatly clip it out of the book. That would not be an unwise thing for you to do.
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#3. 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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#4. You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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#5. The way to success is the way to action, based upon organized thinking followed by action, action, action.
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#6. The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.
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#7. Time is valuable, and when it is gone, it is gone. Time is wealth, and unlike money, when it is gone, you cannot replace it
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#8. It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.
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#9. 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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#10. Nature has endowed man with absolute control over but one thing, and that is thought.
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#11. FAITH and FEAR make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
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#12. Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.
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#14. If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.
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#15. It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.
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#16. If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things. Your mind is your spiritual estate! Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled. You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose.
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#17. When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.
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#18. A definite purpose, backed by absolute faith, is a form of wisdom and wisdom in action produces positive results.
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#19. Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
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#20. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.
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#21. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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#22. Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.
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#23. Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't
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#25. The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.
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#26. First. I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.
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#27. 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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#28. Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.
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#29. Desire The Starting Point of All Achievement: the First Step Toward Riches
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#30. Every brain is both a broadcasting station and a receiving station for the vibrations of thought.
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#31. Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.
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#32. It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!
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#33. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
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#34. Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.
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#35. There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that "Old Man Failure" finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.
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#36. A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.
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#37. In parting, I would remind you that Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions!
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#38. If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
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#40. Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life, not on what you don't want.
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#41. Employers who understand human nature, get the best there is in men, not by criticism, but by constructive suggestion.
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#42. Halpin deserves credit for REFUSING TO COMPROMISE WITH LIFE BY ACCEPTING AND KEEPING A JOB HE DID NOT WANT,
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#43. If you really are smarter than others, show them with your actions.
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#44. Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
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#45. Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.
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#46. No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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#47. It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.
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#48. The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped.
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#49. If you are not learning while you're earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
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#50. Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.
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#51. If you want prosperity, you must refuse to accept any circumstances that lead toward poverty.
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#52. Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.
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#53. The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.
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#54. Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
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#55. Practice being grateful for everything that life has blessed you with.
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#56. Render more service than you are paid for and eventually you will be paid more for less services rendered.
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#57. Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.
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#58. If you try and fail, make another effort, and
still another ... until you succeed.
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#59. Both success and failure are largely the results of habit!
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#60. You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, unless you can work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it.
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#61. When you offer a negative thought of action, you open the negative memory-bank and you may lose all your power to persuade.
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#62. TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects. A
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#64. Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
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#65. The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
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#66. O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
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#67. Love is, without question life's greatest experience.
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#69. YOU ARE THE MASTER OF YOUR FATE, THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SOUL,
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#70. Success begins with a fellow's will - It's all in the state of mind.
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#71. We rise to high positions or remain at the bottom because of conditions we can control if we desire to control them.
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#72. You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.
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#73. 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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#74. Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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#75. Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.
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#76. The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
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#77. Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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#78. If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.
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#79. TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.
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#80. If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.
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#81. This power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches.
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#82. You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
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#83. If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.
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#84. You have been disappointed,you have undergone defeat during the depression, you have felt the great heart within you crushed until it bled. Take courage, for these experiences have tempered the spiritual metal of which you are made- they are assets of incomparable value.
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#85. 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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#86. Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.
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#87. The chances are that your job likes you precisely as much as you like it, but no more.
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#88. Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.
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#89. You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.
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#90. Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence staked their lives on the decision to affix their signatures to that document.
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#91. The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.
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#92. A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.
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#93. If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.
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#95. You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.
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#96. The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
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#97. Successful men become successful only because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success.
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#98. 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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#99. What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
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#100. Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.
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