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Napoleon Hill [1883-1970] American

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Napoleon Hill was an American author and impresario from the new thought tradition of the previous century to become an early producer of personal-success literature.

Success, Failure, Best, Great, Men, Business, Dreams, Fear, Happiness, Imagination, Inspirational, Work, Alone, Brainy, Education, Food, Hope, Intelligence, Knowledge, Life, Money, Motivational, Nature, Patience, Peace, Power, Strength, Time, War

Quote	Tags	Rank
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.	Great	79
The starting point of all achievement is desire.	Success	101
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.	Strength	102
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.		104
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.	Imagination	105
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.	Failure, Success	106
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.	Time	107
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.	Life	108
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.		109
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.	Fear	110
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.	Business	111
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.	Dreams, Inspirational	112
A goal is a dream with a deadline.	Motivational	113
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.	Inspirational	114
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.	Patience, Success	115
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.		116
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.		117
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.		118
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.	Great	119
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.	Hope	120
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.	Men	121
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.	Education	122
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.	Failure, Great, Success	123
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.		124
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.	Success	125
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.		126
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.	Business, Failure, Men	201
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.	War	202
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.	Brainy	203
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.	Failure	204
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.		205
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.	Success	206
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.		207
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.	Best	208
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.		209
Action is the real measure of intelligence.	Intelligence	210
The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.		211
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.	Alone, Dreams, Power	212
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.	Knowledge	213
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.		214
Money without brains is always dangerous.	Money	215
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.	Men	216
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.		217
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.	Best, Happiness, Peace, Success, Work	218
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.		219
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.		220
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.		221
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.		222
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.	Best	223
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.		224
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.		225
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.		226
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.		301
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.		302
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.	Nature	303
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.	Work	304
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.	Food	305
Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.		306
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.		307
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.	Failure, Success	308
Think and grow rich.		309
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.		310
You give before you get.		311
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.		312
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.		313
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.	Fear	314
There is no such thing as Something for nothing.		315
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.		316
It is always your next move.		317
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.		318
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.		319
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.	Success	320
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.	Happiness	321
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.	Failure, Success	322
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.		323
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.		324
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.		325
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.	Imagination	326
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.		401
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.	Failure	402
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.		403

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