Napoleon Hill Quotes

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

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

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

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

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

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

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

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

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.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

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.

If you are not learning while you're earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

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

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

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.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

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

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

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

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.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Worry is a state of mind based on fear.

Ideas... they have the power

You give before you get.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.