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1 " 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. "
― Napoleon Hill , Think and Grow Rich
2 " A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits. "
3 " The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. "
4 " Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. "
― Napoleon Hill
5 " If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. "
6 " Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. "
7 " One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back. "
8 " Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. "
9 " The mind has a definite way of clothing one's thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents. Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty. Think in terms of opulence and you will attract opulence. Through the eternal law of harmonious attraction, one's thoughts always clothe themselves in material things appropriate unto their nature. "
― Napoleon Hill , You Can Work Your Own Miracles
10 " A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him. "
11 " Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. "
12 " You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear. The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you? "
― Napoleon Hill , Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success
13 " Goals are dreams with a deadline. "
14 " You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be. "
15 " Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought "
16 " You become what you think about "
― Napoleon Hill , Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude
17 " The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge. "
18 " There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge. "
19 " Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. "
20 " You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize. "
