Napoleon Hill Quotes

Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.

Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.

Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.

A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

First you get a habit, then it gets you.

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

Experience is a teacher that knows no favorites.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.

Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

Those who can't take directions graciously have no business giving them

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.

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

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.

If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches-perish the thought; because it's not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work. Riches come if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.

The super-salesman neither permits his subconscious mind to "broadcast" negative thoughts nor give expression to them through words, for the reason that he understands that "like attracts like" and negative suggestions attract negative action and negative decisions from prospective buyers.

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

A person's acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.

Worry is a state of mind based upon fear. It works slowly, but persistently. It is insidious and subtle. Step by step it “digs itself in” until it paralyzes ones reasoning faculty, destroys self-confidence and initiative. Worry is a form of sustained fear caused by indecision therefore it is a state of mind which can be controlled.

Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all "miracles" and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure!

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.

You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world.

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

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