Napoleon Hill Quotes

I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.

Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.

If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it!

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

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

There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.

When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.

Do not search for SUCCESS off in the distance, but instead recognize it and grasp it right where you are!

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

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

If you learn to budget your time correctly, you will have time for all your needs.

You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.

Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.

No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!

Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!

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

You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.

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

The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

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

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.

Plan you work and work your plan.

Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.

Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

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

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.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.

Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.