Motivational Quotes: Napoleon Hill

Success works inside / out.

Are you morally sound? When you are on the big stage, eyes abound. Little goes unseen when you have reached the peak. If you move in secret combinations, you'll be found out. Your sins broadcast atop the mount.

A check for you: Where do your thoughts go when alone, with no one about? Moral character is defined in these most private of times.

Control breeds the contentment of success.

If you are angered by the following, you will fail.

"You're such a jerk, they named a dance after you!"

"You're so stupid, even "stupid" won't lend you its name."

"You're a bug in the blanket of your own sloth."

If you've ever been angered by a name, an epitaph, returning it to the sender with angered passion "opinion unknown," then you've accepted a judgment that you deny.

If none of it's true, then what's got into you?

Negative begets negative and breeds contempt of others and self:

In belittling, disqualifying, defacing another's character, you double the damage: the sender and receiver damaged with each hit of the target.

Thinking of the other before we fire strengthens our game.

But ultimately, wherein lies the answer, the solution to this "game"?

The woman.

To be a man requires being all the best a woman's got: nurturer, seeker of connections, an advocate, gentle yet firm, the heart of the family and all that life means.

Inaction is the breeder of boredom and waste:

Most action is better than no action at all. But action coming from an understanding of self and one's talents and purpose is better.

Listening to society, parents, even the self, one can be misinformed, for the answer lies within--a place of great neglect. With some it may be buried, almost beyond recognition. But the answer is there. It is there for all.

It may be buried because of poor thinking; mis-truths, lies of omission and commission washing over the mind for months / years and seen as truth. These "conventions," beliefs passed down by family, friends, society, are harbored as ultimate truth, but only lie within misconceptions passed on as dogma.

Real desires are not found outside but within, having a singular connection--the he or she to them. Here, with a connection to the subconscious, the intuitive, the divine, one will find his purpose, her purpose and shine.

But don't dull it with lack of passion.

If desire is lacking, one does not learn. If retention through interest is kept at bay, this is where one needs proper focus. Turn from what you've been told is "for you" to what you know, knowledge from within. For it is here and only here where one will find why she or he is alive.

Discover your purpose.

We all have at least one.

But if you're going to do just anything, and something is better than nothing, then resign yourself to doing what you've been told to do.

But let the warning begin: if that "something" is not your true, burning desire, then it is closer to nothing than you may have ever known.

Are you a giver or a taker?:

To get one must give.

An unknown? An impossibility in this moment of the self-served, express yourself age?

But this is only a moment. Serving of the self is a fashion, one that has come and gone before, brining many an age to an end. But to begin an age requires greater effort and energy, like a rocket breaking the earth's atmosphere to galactic flight.

It is here where any age begins in earnest, a giving to beget all giving.

Once giving begins, it is of much greater weight or import than getting. Getting begets little getting, for if the getter fixates on inert possessions it pulls him down. But if the getter lifts his gaze to those beyond, universal law begins and lets the getter give again and again. It's weight is light and enlivening.

Consider the child at Christmas. Little does she think of the giving in self-centered, tender years, until the giving begins in the biggest giving of all: the parental years of give, give, give, and little take.

So look to the giver for the secrets to the universe. They reside here and are more near and dear than you may have ever known. In the giving the giver is giving and oh, the wonder of wonders that is shown.

Bless you in all your giving.

Let the giving begin.

Own some of that which makes the giver the best of all known.

Character :

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

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No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.

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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''

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Indecision is the seedling of fear.

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Action :

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

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Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

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

Desire

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

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

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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.

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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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Love What You Do; Do What You Love :

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

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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.

Give All You've Got:

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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.

Napoleon Hill

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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

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

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

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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.

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

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You give before you get.

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

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle...

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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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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Napoleon Hill





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