Napoleon Hill quotes:

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

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.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

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

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.

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.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

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

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.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

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

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

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

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

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

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

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.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

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.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Think and grow rich.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

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

I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself."

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats"

A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

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

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.

Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.

The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.

I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say

If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

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.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.

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.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.

There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real.

All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.

Capability means imagination...

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief

A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself.

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. 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.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

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.

You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.

If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

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

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

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

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

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.

It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all "miracles" and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure!

Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.

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

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.

If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you have already received, instead of requests for what you do not have, you will obtain results a great deal faster.

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.