Napoleon Hill's Quotes

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

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

It is always your next move.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

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

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

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

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

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

You give before you get.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

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

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

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

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

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

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

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

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

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

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

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

Think and grow rich.

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

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.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

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

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

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

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.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

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

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.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

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.