Napoleon Hill Quotes

Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.

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.

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

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.

You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality.

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative.

Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

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

If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!

Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.

The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.

It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.

First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

No one can keep you down but yourself

There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.

You can always become the person you would have liked to be.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

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

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.

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

Do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These laws are available to every person who has the faith and the courage to use them.

To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.

Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.

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

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.

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

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.

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

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 imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.