Napoleon Hill Quotes
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It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.
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If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.
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You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.
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Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
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Failure cannot cope with persistence.
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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.
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I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of success, and discovered that each of them had received guidance from unknown sources, although many of them were reluctant to admit this discovery.
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When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway.
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The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.
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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
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If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
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Adversity will do something too you or for you....
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Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.
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Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.
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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. . .
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You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.
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Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
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When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.
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Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
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The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
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Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.
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The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
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Render more service than you are paid for and eventually you will be paid more for less services rendered.
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Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies.