Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Persistence, Character, Perseverance, Failure
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Responsibility
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Perseverance, Persistence
Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Procrastination, Action, Time Management, Humankind
There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Giving, Charity
Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Failure, Success
Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. Millions of men go through life in misery and poverty, because they lack a sound plan through which to accumulate a fortune.
—Napoleon Hill
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Intelligence, Action
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Failure, Adversity
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Power, Purpose, Goals
The greatest achievements of men, were at first, nothing but dreams of the minds of men who knew that dreams are the seedlings of all achievements. A burning desire, to be and to do, is the starting point, from which the dreamer must take off.
—Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Goals
It is always your next move.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Action, Choice
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Endurance, Effort, Perseverance, Persistence, Resolve
Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.
—Napoleon Hill
Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.
—Napoleon Hill
Worry is a state of mind based on fear.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Fear, Worry
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Thoughts, Thought, Failure
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.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Winning, Success & Failure, Success
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Truth
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Miscellaneous, Failure
We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment. Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to ORDER.
—Napoleon Hill
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Imagination
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Experience
Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest came just one step *beyond* the point at which defeat had overtaken them.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Persistence, Failure, Perseverance
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Decisions
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.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Mistakes
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Planning, Goals
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before “arriving”.
—Napoleon Hill
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Responsibility
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