Napoleon Hill Quotes About Defeat

Quotes about: Defeat

• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.13, Penguin

• 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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  Motivational, Attitude, Failure

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

• No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

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  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.34, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

• Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Doors, Temporary Defeat

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.16, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

• One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.17, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

• Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.18, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

• Fear is the tool of a man-made devil. Self-confident faith in one's self is both the man-made weapon which defeats this devil and the man-made tool which builds a triumphant life. And it is more than that. It is a link to the irresistible forces of the universe which stand behind a man who does not believe in failure and defeat as being anything but temporary experiences.

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  Believe, Men, Self

  Napoleon Hill (1983). “Grow rich!--: with peace of mind”, Fawcett Books

• Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Simple

• If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

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  Dream, Believe, Temporary Defeat

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.32, Lulu.com

• Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

  Napoleon Hill

  Reality, Names, Dumb

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.34, Lulu.com

• There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

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  Temporary Defeat, Differences, Defeat

  Napoleon Hill, E. Harold Keown (1989). “Succeed and grow rich through persuasion”, Signet

• 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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  Gratitude, Blessing, Temporary Defeat

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.34, Penguin

• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Failure

• 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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  Temporary Defeat, Differences, Dormant

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.125, Penguin

• We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

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  Inspirational, Men, Temporary Defeat

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

• Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

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  Fitness, Attitude, Block

  "Napoleon Hill's Master Key/ Learning from Adversity/ Storyline". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1954.

• 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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  Successful, Men, Effort

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.90, Courier Corporation

• Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

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  Past, Temporary Defeat, Leader

• Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

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  Business, Temporary Defeat, Defeat

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “You Can Work Your Own Miracles”, p.91, Ballantine Books

• Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

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  Encouragement, Cities, People

• Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

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  Temporary Defeat, Remember, Failing

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.91, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

• Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

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  Jobs, Opportunity, Careers

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.65, Penguin

• What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

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  Leadership, Past, Men

• Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

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  Men, Self, Temporary Defeat

• From Christ on down to Edison, the men who have achieved most have been those who met with the most stubborn forms of temporary defeat. This would seem to justify the conclusion that Infinite Intelligence has a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the opportunity to render useful service in a noteworthy fashion.

  Napoleon Hill

  Fashion, Opportunity, Men

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