Napoleon Hill Quotes

“All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.”

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

“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”

“There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”

“Success is the attainment of your definite chief aim without violating the rights of other people.”

“Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

“When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

“Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.”

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

“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”

“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.”

“Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.”

“If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.”

“Let a person radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.”

“Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do…”

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

“You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; yet you have the key in your own hands the moment you learn to control your thoughts.”

“Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don’t want.”

“The most practical way of controlling the mind is to keep it busy with a purpose, backed by a plan.”

“Nothing was ever created that was not first conceived in the imagination, through desire, and transformed into reality through concentration.”

“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”

“Focus on what you have, not what you don’t have.”

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

“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”

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

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”

“Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.”

“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.”

“The mind has no limitations except those which conflict with the laws of nature.”

“Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.”

“There is no such thing as something for nothing.”

“When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity regardless of what others may do, you are destined for greatness.”

“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”

“Success is the ability to get what you want from life without interfering with another person's ability to get what they want from life.”

“Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.”

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

“Nothing can bring you success but yourself.”

“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

“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.”

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

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

“Plan your work and work your plan.”

“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”

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

“Successful people make decisions quickly and change them slowly. Unsuccessful people make decisions slowly and change them quickly.”

“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.”