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Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author. He is well known for his book Think and Grow Rich which is among the top 10 best selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life. Most of his books were promoted as expounding principles to achieve "success". Hill was an advisor to two presidents of the United States of America, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind."

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."

— Napoleon Hill

"No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility."

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing."

— Napoleon Hill

"You can do it if you believe you can!"

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

"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."

— Napoleon Hill

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

"You give before you get."

— Napoleon Hill

"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

"Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."

— Napoleon Hill

"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."

— Napoleon Hill

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

— Napoleon Hill

"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

"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."

— Napoleon Hill

"If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way."

— Napoleon Hill

"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

"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."

— Napoleon Hill

"Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass."

— Napoleon Hill

"The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge."

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

"You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little."

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

"A quitter never wins and a winner never quits."

— Napoleon Hill

"Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds"

— Napoleon Hill

"A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits."

— Napoleon Hill

"An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others."

— Napoleon Hill

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

— Napoleon Hill

"More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self"

— Napoleon Hill

"Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking."

— Napoleon Hill

"A goal is a dream with a deadline"

— Napoleon Hill

"I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself."

— Napoleon Hill

"We refuse to believe that which we don't understand."

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

"To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents."

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

"Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say."

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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