Napoleon Hill

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

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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

Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

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

Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.

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

It is always your next move.

Weak desires bring weak results just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it and reach your own decisions.

Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

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

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Opportunity -Often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

If you cannnot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

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

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Indecision is the seedling of fear

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

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

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

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

You can be anything you want to be if you only believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith for whatever the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve.

Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.

Practical dreamers do not quit.

The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

You give before you get.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to deliver the goods when they say they will.

Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.

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.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

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

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.

There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.

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

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Practice being grateful for everything that life has blessed you with.

The worst of all human ailments: indecision.

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

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

When defeat comes accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound rebuild those plans and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Every adversity carries with it the seed of equal or greater benefit.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Money without brains is always dangerous.

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do it yourself project.

The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.

You've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize.

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

Every adversity every failure every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

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.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

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

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

Cherish your visions and you dreams as they are the children of your soul the blueprints of your ultimate achievements

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

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

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

Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

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.

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

Think and grow rich.