Napoleon Hill - The Law of Success (1925)

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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

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The human brain is both a broadcasting and a receiving station.

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One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which they like best. Everyone should find his or her particular niche in the world's work, where both material prosperity and happiness in abundance may be found.

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To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

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No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

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

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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

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Any deeply rooted desire saturates the entire body and mind with the nature of the desire and literally transforms the mind into a powerful magnet that will attract the object of the desire, if it be within reason.

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

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You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

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Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

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Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

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The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

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Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.

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Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.

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We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

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The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

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What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.

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There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

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There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it

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Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

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If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!

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Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.

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No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.

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

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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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No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

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