Napoleon Hill Quotes
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Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats.
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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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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.
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Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
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Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
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A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.
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There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.
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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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We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
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Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all "miracles" and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure!
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Success come to those who become success conscious.
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Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.
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Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
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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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One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
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Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself.
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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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The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.
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Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.
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There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
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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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Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.
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Failure cannot cope with persistence.
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First you get a habit, then it gets you.