Napoleon Hill - The Law of Success (1925)

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Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.

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You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world.

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Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

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The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

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No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!

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There is some one thing that you can do better than anyone else in the world could do it. Search until you find out what this particular line of endeavor is, then organize all of your forces and attack it with the belief that you are going to win.

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The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

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If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

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No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.

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Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

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No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

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It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

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There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

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The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.

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You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.

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You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.

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The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.

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Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.

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The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.

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The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.

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The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

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Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

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Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.

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If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel.

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The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

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Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.

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Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

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We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

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Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

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The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.

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