Napoleon Hill Quotes

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“What most people purchase is the pleasing personality of some man or woman who knows the value of cultivating such a personality.”

“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.”

“Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.”

“You give before you get.”

“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”

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

“Success comes on when you act on what you know and believe.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”

“The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.”

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

“Plan your work and work your plan.”

“A mastermind is a mind developed through the harmonious cooperation of two or more people who ally themselves for the purpose of accomplishing any given task.”

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

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

“People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come into contact than they are by the merchandise.”

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

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

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

“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 two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.”

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

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

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”

“Nothing can bring you success but yourself.”

“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.”

“Success in this world is always a matter of individual effort, yet you can only succeed with the cooperation of others.”

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

“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.”

“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”

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

“It is always your next move.”

“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”

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

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

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

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

“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”

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

“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.”

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

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

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

“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”

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