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752 Napoleon Hill Quotes

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Examine most carefully the things you desire most.
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Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.
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Keep so busy going after what you want that you have no tune to fear what you don't want.
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Don't be afraid to aim high when choosing your life's goal, for no matter how high you aim, your achievements may fall below it.
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If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.
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Unless you are an army officer, you can get better results by requests than you can by orders.
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No man is capable of giving orders unless he knows how to take orders and carry them out.
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Willing cooperation produces enduring power, while forced cooperation ends in failure.
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Try telling your foreman about the things you like and see how willingly he will help you get rid of the things you don't like.
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Friendly cooperation will get a man more than unfriendly agitation in any market.
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No man can succeed and remain successful without the friendly cooperation of others.
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Cooperation must start at the head of a department if it is expected at the other end. Ditto for efficiency.
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Friendly cooperation is never any part of the devil's work. He is working on the other side.
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Most men will respond more freely to a request than they will to an order.
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A man who can't take orders graciously has no business giving them.
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Remember that no one can hurt your feelings without your cooperation and willingness.
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If you don’t know, have the courage to admit it and you will be well on the road toward learning.
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Courage is often one jump ahead of fear.
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The man who complains he never had a chance probably hasn't the courage to take a chance.
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One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be a nobody. The world will then not bother you.
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Never fear unjust criticism, but be sure it is unjust.
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Never criticize anyone you don't understand.
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Better put in the time trying to learn something about him, then criticism may be unnecessary.
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If inventors feared criticism, we would still be traveling by ox cart and wearing homespun clothing.
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Don't be afraid of criticism, but be prepared to accept it if you have a brand new idea to offer.
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Never criticize another man's deeds unless you know why he performed them. The chances are you would have done the same under the same circumstances.
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If you can't take criticism, you have no right to dish it out to others.
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If you can't stand criticism, you may as well not begin anything that is new.
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Before criticizing the coffee, remember that you may be old and weak yourself sometime.
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If you haven't done so well with overgenerous criticism of others, why not reverse your philosophy and give praise a trial?
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Before you start criticizing, you had better do a little softening up by praise.
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Praise more freely than you criticize if you wish to be popular.
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If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your deeds.
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Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.
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Medals and titles will not count when you get to heaven, but you may be looked over carefully for the sort of deeds you have done.
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The only safe way to boast is by constructive deeds and not by words.
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When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.
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Self-praise is a credit only when it consists of deeds helpful to others and not of mere words.
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Deeds, not words, are the greatest means of self-praise. If you really are smarter than, other men, you will let others find this out from your deeds.
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The safest and best way to punish one who has done you an injustice is to do him a kind deed in return.
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Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Deeds will impress him more.
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By all means tell the world how good you are - but first show it!
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