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“There is no substitute for honesty... there is NO HOPE for the person who is dishonest...”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938), p.88

Personality , Hope

“Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 173

Life , Time , Men , Indecision

“Most people are too indifferent or lazy to acquire facts with which to think accurately. They prefer to act on "opinions" created by guesswork or snap-judgments.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p.88

Indifference , People , Thinking

“Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938)

“Power in the hands of one who did not acquire it gradually, is often fatal to success.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938)
Context: Sons and daughters of wealthy men, and others who inherit money which they did not earn...

Success

“Inability to cooperate with others. More people lose their positions and their big opportunities in life, because of this fault, than for all other reasons combined.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938)

People , Life

“The most damaging forms of intemperance are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p.88

Drink , Success , Strong

“The person with a "closed" mind on any subject seldom gets ahead. Intolerance means that one has stopped acquiring knowledge. The most damaging forms of intolerance are those connected with religious, racial, and political differences of opinion.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p.88

Personality , Knowledge

“No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. The most essential step in the marketing of personal services is that of selecting an occupation into which you can throw yourself wholeheartedly.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 87

Personality

“Sex energy is the most powerful of all the stimuli which move people into action. Because it is the most powerful of the emotions, it must be controlled, through transmutation, and converted into other channels.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938)

People , Sex

“Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 87

Success , Personality , People , Effort

“Most of us are good "starters" but poor "finishers" of everything we begin. Moreover, people are prone to give up at the first signs of defeat. There is no substitute for persistence. Failure cannot cope with Persistance.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 86

People , Failure

“Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the "time to be right" to start doing something worthwhile. The time will never be "just right."”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

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.
Think and Grow Rich (1938)

Time , Waiting , Failure , Life

“Procrastination is one of the most common causes of failure.... Procrastination stands within the shadow of every human being, waiting his opportunity to spoil one's chances of success.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938)

Chance , Waiting , Success , Failure

“Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. Millions of men go through life in misery and poverty, because they lack a sound plan through which to accumulate a fortune.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 73

Knowledge , Life , Men

“This earth, every one of the billions of individual cells of your body, and every atom of matter, began as an intangible form of energy.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 64

“The earth on which you live, you, yourself, and every other material thing are the result of evolutionary change, through which microscopic bits of matter have been organized and arranged in an orderly fashion.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 63

Fashion , Change

“The time will soon come when a man may breakfast in New York, and lunch in San Francisco.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 62

Time

“We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 54

Life