Napoleon Hill Quotes
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No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.
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We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.
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Failure cannot cope with persistence.
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Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.
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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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Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.
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Knowledge is only potential power.
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You can always become the person you would have liked to be.
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Success come to those who become success conscious.
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The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just as easy to switch over and get exactly what they want out of life, not recognizing that the mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.
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If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.
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The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
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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 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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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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Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.
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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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Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
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Dreams are the seedlings of reality.
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It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.
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Ideas... they have the power.
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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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It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.
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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.