Napoleon Hill - The Law of Success (1925)

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

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The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

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

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You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

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A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

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It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

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We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.

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No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

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People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.

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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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You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

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No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

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When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

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Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

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It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

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Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.

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

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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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I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.

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Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.

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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

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

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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

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

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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.

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Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.

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You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.

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