Napoleon Hill - Definite Quotes

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What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

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Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.

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Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth

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Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.

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The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

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Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.

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Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.

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The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

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There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

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All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

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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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The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

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I believe it is not unreasonable to suggest that to be sure of successful achievement, one's definite chief aim in life should be backed up with a burning desire for its achievement.

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Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

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Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

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If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

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IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.

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Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

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When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in a position, through the alliance, to absorb the power directly from the great storehouse of Infinite Intelligence.

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I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

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