Napoleon Hill Quotes
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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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Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
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Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself.
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It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.
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First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
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It takes a habit to replace a habit.
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Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.
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No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.
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No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.
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Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.
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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.
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The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.
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The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.
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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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The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it.
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Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.
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Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
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We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.
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If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.
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Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.
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If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!
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Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.
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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. . .