If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you already have, instead of requests for things you do not have, you will obtain results much faster.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care

Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.” You need a definite plan, it should be written down, and it should dictate, with military precision, the moves that you will be taking. Napoleon Hill said, “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.