Napoleon Hill Quotes

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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Success, Mind, Person

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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Best, True, Others

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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Often, Defeat, Misfortune

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Food, Care, Greatest

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
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Judge, Person, Him

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Life, Before, Takes

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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Put, Once, Desire

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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Success, Desire, Point

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.
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Business, Men, Failure

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Idea, Beginning, Riches

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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Another, Speak, Write

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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Great, Small, Cannot

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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Strong, Enough, Achieve

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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Happiness, Found, Possessing

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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Goal, Once, Accept

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
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Success, Time, Failure

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Until, Desire, Obsession

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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Start, Service, Stand

Money without brains is always dangerous.
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Money, Dangerous, Brains

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Character, Steel, Carbon

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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Success, Work, Peace

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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Job, Stamp, Sticks

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
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Dreams, Power, Alone

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 26, 1883

Died: November 8, 1970

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