There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

Most illness begins with a negative mind.

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

It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.

Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit.