Napoleon Hill Quotes

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.

If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel.

That which you think today becomes that which you are tomorrow.

If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself.

It is always your next move.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind.

If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility.

Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.

Whatever your mind can conceive, you can achieve.

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.

O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.

Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.

Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.

Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth.

Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.

Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.

Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.

There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it

If your environment is not to your liking, change it!

Faith is the head chemist of the mind.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point from which one must begin.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.