Napoleon Hill Quotes

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

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

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

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.

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

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

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

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.

Think and grow rich.

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.

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

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

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

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

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

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

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

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

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

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

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.

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.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

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

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

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.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

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