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Napoleon Hill Quotes About Success

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

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.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

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

Napoleon Hill Quotes About Resilience

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

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

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.

More Quotes by Napoleon Hill

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

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

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

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.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

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

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

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.

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

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

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

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

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

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

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.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

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.

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.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

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

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.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

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