拿破仑•希尔（Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970）是一位励志大师。他的早年生活充满了艰辛和坎坷。从1908年起，希尔在钢铁大王安德鲁•卡内基的帮助下，开始了长达20多年的成功学研究，拜访了500多位在美国政治、工商、科学和金融等领域取得卓越成就的高层人士，完成了具有划时代意义的名著——《成功法则》。他的另外一部著作《思考致富》也能给你极大的鼓舞。

1 What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
成功取决于思想和信念。
Achieve:实现；获得

2 Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
反复思考能使任何的想法、计划或者目的驻足心中。
Repetition: 重复
 
3 Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
拿着高薪但极少承担责任的情况几乎没有。
Circumstance: 情况

4 Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints² of your ultimate achievements.
珍惜你的梦想就好像它们是你的灵魂之子，是你最终成就的蓝图。
Cherish: 珍惜
Vision: 远见
Blueprint¹: 蓝图
Ultimate: 最终的

5 Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
爱迪生失败了1万次才发明电灯。所以如果你只是失败几次，就不必灰心了。
Discourage: 使灰心

6 Effort only fully³ releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
只有我们拒绝放弃的时候，我们的努力才能完全得到回报。
Effort: 努力
Release: 释放
Reward: 回报
Quit: 放弃

7 Every person who wins in any undertaking⁴ must be willing to cut all sources of retreat.
任何人要想在任何领域获得成功都必须坚持。
Undertaking: 事业；任务
Retreat: 退却

8 Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
伟大的成就大多来自于伟大的牺牲，决不是来自于自私自利。
Sacrifice: 牺牲
Selfishness: 自私

9 Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily⁵ enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn⁶ toward it.
坚持在你的内心中想象理想的自己，时间一长你就会习惯于成功的自我。
Steadily: 坚持地

10 Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
就像我们的眼睛需要光明才能看得见东西，我们的心灵需要要思想才能有所构想。
Conceive: 构想

11 No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
没有一个真正的思想家会根据一个人的敌人的所言来鉴别此人。
Accurate: 准确的

12 No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
没有任何人能在他不喜欢的行业取得成功。
Endeavor: 努力

13 Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
机会经常隐藏在不幸和暂时的失败中。
Disguise: 伪装
Misfortune: 不幸

14 Patience, persistence⁷ and perspiration⁸ make an unbeatable combination for success.
耐心、坚持和抱负是成功的不二法则。
Patience: 耐心
Persistence: 坚持
Perspiration: 抱负
Unbeatable: 无敌的

15 Procrastination⁹ is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
拖延就是把前天就应该完成的事情放到后天去做的坏习惯。
Procrastination: 拖延

16 Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
一旦你把计划付诸于笔端，你就把无形的渴望转为有形。
Definitely: 明确地
Concrete: 具体的
Intangible: 难以捉摸的

17 The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
发展决断力的办法就是从现在做起，直面困难。
Decisiveness: 决断力

18 There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
唯一限制我们心灵的就是自我限制。
Acknowledge: 承认

19 War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
牺牲他人的利益获取先机将导致争斗。
Expense: 代价 at the expense of 是习惯用法

20 When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted¹⁰ goal.
视失败为计划不周；重建计划然后向既定目标再次扬帆启航。
Sound: 合理的
Rebuild: 再建
Covet: 渴求