Napoleon Hill Quotes

If you don’t want your life to be 'messed up', don’t fool around with those who have messed up theirs.

Success is knowing what you're doing, loving what you're doing, and believing what you're doing

No matter where you are now, whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.

Believe it and achieve it.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Don't ever admit that the world has not given you an opportunity

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.

Time is wealth, and unlike money when it is gone you cannot replace it.

Success come to those who become success conscious.

Keep your mind focused on what you want and act accordingly. You will achieve success!

Out of resistance comes strength.

You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.

No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.

All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind.

You give before you get.

You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.

Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

Have faith in yourself; faith in the infinite

Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.

There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

Whatever you think today becomes what you are tomorrow.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.

If you fail to plan,you can plan to fail.

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil. Self-confident faith in one's self is both the man-made weapon which defeats this devil and the man-made tool which builds a triumphant life. And it is more than that. It is a link to the irresistible forces of the universe which stand behind a man who does not believe in failure and defeat as being anything but temporary experiences.

Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.

You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind

You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.