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Napoleon Hill quotes

Ocupation: Author

Life: October 26, 1883 - November 8, 1970

Birthday: October 26

Death: November 8

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

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Had A Great Time, Top Management

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

source: - Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.6, Lulu.com

Topics: Inspirational, Positive, Success, About Success, Perspiration

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

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Family, Road To Success, Selfish People

Quotation Napoleon Hill Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life Quotes

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Topics: Inspirational, Success, Smart, Journey To Success, Starting All Over

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

Topics: Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination, Life Determination, Motivational Achievement

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

Topics: May, Tools, Found, Where You Stand, Focus On Goals

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

Topics: Real, Age, Way, Think And Grow Rich, Think Rich Grow Rich

Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.

Topics: Positive, Ocean, Men

O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

Topics: Mind, Desire, Use, Divine Providence

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

Topics: Success, Believe, Greatness, Commitment In Business

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

Topics: Inspirational, Business, Opportunity, Best Opportunity, Great Opportunity

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

Topics: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Inspirational Adversity, Inspirational Success Failure

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Topics: Success, Military, Benefits, Inspirational Adversity, Success Failure

The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith.

Topics: Inspirational, Reality, Mind, Strange Phenomena, Subconscious Mind

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

Topics: Inspirational, Dream, Encouragement, Transcending, Starting All Over

No one's ready for a thing, until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.

Topics: Believe, Mind, Wish, Closed Mind, Open Mindedness

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

Topics: Fire, Desire, Heat, Inspirational Achievement, Superhuman Powers

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

Topics: Men, Spirit, Harmony

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Topics: Inspirational, Men, World, Think And Grow Rich

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.

Topics: Success, Time, Mistake, Success Or Failure, Failure Inspirational

Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all "miracles" and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure!

Topics: Faith, Giving, Miracle, Elixir, Think And Grow Rich

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.

Topics: Hurt, Too Much, May

If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.

Topics: Attitude, Worried, Mental Attitude

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

Topics: Building, Habit

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

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Dream, Believe In Your Dreams

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.

Topics: Motivational, Attitude, Acceptance, Inspirational Money, Inspirational Money Making

It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.

Topics: Responsibility, Mind, Emotion, Positive Emotions, Dominating

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

Topics: Umpires, Judging, Enemy, Judgment Of Others

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

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Depression Inspirational, Determination And Success

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

Topics: Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings, Lucky Breaks, Power Of Ideas

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Topics: Success, Reality, Defeat, Defeated You, Think And Grow Rich

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

Topics: Motivational, Success, Teamwork, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Teamwork

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

Topics: Inspirational, Numbers, People

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.

Topics: People, Mind, Force, Dominating

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

Topics: Success, People, Purpose

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

Topics: Loyalty, Causes, Walks Of Life, Loyalty In Business, Different Walks Of Life

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Topics: Inspirational, Funny, Money

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

Topics: Doors, Hands, Keys

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

Topics: Cheating, Nature, Giving Up, Think And Grow Rich

Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Topics: Opportunity, Doors, Slipping, Sly, Back Doors

The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.

Topics: Inspirational, Powerful, Commitment, Holding Back, Unforeseen

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

source: - Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, Lulu.com

Topics: Inspirational, Dream, Business

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

Topics: Positive Thinking, Ideas, Mind, Repetitive, Positive Affirmations

Self-disciplined 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.

Topics: Bad Ass, Thinking, Self, Self Discipline, Self Restraint

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

Topics: Change, Fear Of Success, Temporary Defeat

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

Topics: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Inspirational Dream, Source Of Inspiration

First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.

Topics: Loss, Desire, Firsts

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

source: - Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.115, Penguin

Topics: Wisdom, Mind, Done, Positive Mind, Negative Mind

Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.

Topics: Goal, Trying, Target

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Topics: Inspiring, Success, Responsibility, Big Responsibility, Think And Grow Rich

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Topics: Cooking, Mind, Environmental, Our Environment

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

Topics: Business, Men, Doe

When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

Topics: Appearance, Ready

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

Topics: Stay Positive, Conscious

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

Topics: Failure, Men, Mind, Failure Inspirational, Failure Motivational

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Topics: Strength, Success, Yoga, Work Effort, Continuous Effort

Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

Topics: Jobs, Opportunity, Careers, Temporary Setbacks

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

Topics: Motivational, Successful, People, Unsuccessful

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

Topics: Inspirational, Causes, Common, Temporary Defeat, Think Rich Grow Rich

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

Topics: Mind, Negative, Emotion, Positive Emotions, Negative Emotions

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

source: - Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.64, Penguin

Topics: Habit, Success And Failure, Results

Knowledge is only potential power.

Topics: Knowledge, Think Rich Grow Rich

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

Topics: Success, Dream, Achievement, Oaks, Greatest Achievement

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Topics: House, Purpose, Planning

You can always become the person you would have liked to be.

Topics: Persons

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

Topics: Adversity, Successful, Opportunity

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't.

Topics: Attitude, Thinking, Remember

Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.

Topics: Opportunity, Going The Extra Mile, Miles, Extra Mile

If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you have already received, instead of requests for what you do not have, you will obtain results a great deal faster.

Topics: Gratitude, Prayer, Blessing, Expressions Of Gratitude, Blessing You

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

Topics: Failure, Trying, Life Is

If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility.

Topics: Jobs, Responsibility, Way

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

Topics: Real, Mistake, Men

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.

Topics: Greatness, Giving, Trying

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

Topics: Inspirational, Tripping, Delight, Within Reach, Tricksters

Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.

Topics: Stars, Dreamer, World, Ascendancy

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

Topics: Mind, Limitation

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

Topics: Imagination, Balance, Riches

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

Topics: Lying, Sleep, Achievement

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

Topics: Mistake, Responsibility, Successful

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

Topics: People, Criticism, Majority

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.

Topics: Way, Spirit, Success In Life

A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

Topics: Mind, Emotion, Abode, Positive Emotions, Think And Grow Rich

ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.

Topics: Tendencies, Impulse

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

Topics: Men, Average, Weakness, Brighten Your Day

You give before you get.

Topics: Giving, Think And Grow Rich

A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.

Topics: Blessing, Mind, Closed Mind

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

Topics: Opportunity, Needs, Fit, Resourceful

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Topics: Success, Effort, Chiefs, Jack Of All Trades, Concentrating

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

Topics: Thinking, People, Desire, Self Help, Deliberate

When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.

Topics: Talking, Want, Deeds

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

source: - Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

Topics: Chance, Persons

Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.

Topics: Decision, Want

If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.

Topics: Believe, Mind, Achieve

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Topics: Strong, Desire, Tendencies, Strong Desire

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Topics: School, Forever, Calling, Finished School, Pursuit Of Knowledge

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

Topics: People, Cooperation, Individual

Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.

Topics: Men, Mind, Permit, Dominating

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Topics: Motivational, Perseverance, Jobs, Persistence Inspirational, Persistence Love

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

Topics: Change, Happiness, Inspiring, Inspirational Winning, Quitter

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

Topics: Integrity, Greatness, Able, Destined, Destined For Greatness

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

Topics: Purpose, Certain, Drifting

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

Topics: Inspirational, Positive, Philosophy, Infinite Intelligence, Lucky Breaks

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Topics: Money, Brain, Wealth, Best Money

If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.

Topics: Facts, Action, Really Great

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Ideas, Desire To Win, Balance And Harmony

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Topics: Happiness, Happy Inspirational, Found, Think And Grow Rich, Possessing

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

Topics: Life, Motivational, Dream, Man Of My Dreams, Dreams Can Come True

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

Topics: Positive, Being Strong, Dream, Strong Desire, Superhuman Powers

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

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Desire, Inertia, Readiness

Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage

Topics: Enemy, Acts Of Courage, Repetition

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.

Topics: Life, Destiny, Want, Control Your Destiny, Think And Grow Rich

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

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Think Rich Grow Rich

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

Topics: Thinking, Wish

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Topics: Success, Preparation, Ladders, Crowded, Path To Success

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Topics: Powerful, Writing, Goal, Inspiring Writing, Desire To Win

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

Topics: War, Men, Desire, Desire To Win, Anti War

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Topics: Money, Hippie, Ideas

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

Topics: Motivational, Success, Responsibility

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

Topics: Way, Next, Faces, Decisiveness

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Topics: Happiness, Success, Peace

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.

Topics: Ambition, Character, Literature, Rendering, Extra Mile

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.

Topics: Motivational, Men, Class, Serving

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

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Inspirational Perseverance, Carbon Dioxide

FAITH is the element, the “chemical” which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.

Topics: Prayer, Communication, Giving

The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.

Topics: Opinion, Habit, Organized

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Topics: Inspirational, Fear, Challenges, State Of Mind

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Topics: Motivational, Work, Kind, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

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

Topics: Success, Teacher, Congratulations, Planting Seeds, Sowing Seeds

The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work.

Topics: People, Reason, Plans

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Success, Overcoming Failure, Perseverence

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Topics: Wise, Wisdom, Men, Keeping Quiet, Remaining Silent

If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches-perish the thought; because it's not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work. Riches come if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.

Topics: Honesty, Believe, Hard Work, Results Of Hard Work, True Riches

Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

Topics: Waiting, Going Out, Hiding

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

Topics: Motivational, Perseverance, Time, Electric Light, Funny Motivational

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Topics: Motivational, Success, Powerful, Think And Grow Rich

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Topics: Successful, Agree

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Business, Accomplishment, Sense Of Accomplishment, Lucky Breaks

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

Topics: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Power And Control, Mind Control

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

Topics: Business, Procrastination, Yesterday, Procrastinating, Yesterday And Tomorrow

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Softball, Desire For Success, Desire To Win

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

Topics: Decision, Earth, Succeed, Think And Grow Rich, Think Rich Grow Rich

The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.

Topics: Play, Two, People

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

Topics: Life, Motivational, Positive, Wants And Desires, Desire For Success

Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.

Topics: Firsts, Causes, Purpose, Drifting

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.

Topics: Wise, Inspirational Life, New Beginnings, New Projects, Power Of The Mind

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

Topics: Education, Struggle, Effort, Think Rich Grow Rich

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

Topics: Goal, May, Stones, Alibis

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

Topics: Motivation, Results, Misused

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

Topics: Ideas, Criticism, Planning

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Topics: Silence, Modesty, Genuine, Think And Grow Rich

One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

Topics: Persistence, Calling, Doe

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.

Topics: Desire, Impossible, Endure, Nothing Is Impossible

Whatever mind can concieved and believe can be achieves

Topics: Believe, Mind, Achieve

Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.

Topics: May, Matter

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

Topics: Action, Ends, Plans

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

Topics: Desire, Opinion

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Topics: Life, Motivational, Positive, Uplifting In Hard Times

Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

Topics: Men

Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

Topics: Dream, Reality, Seedlings

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?

Topics: Success, Achievement, Use

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

Topics: Success, Focus, Possibility

Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy.

Topics: Wise, Hurt, Honesty, Hurting Others, Two Paths

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

Topics: Gratitude, Blessing, Lessons, Temporary Defeat, Blessings In Disguise

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.

Topics: Wind, Imagination, Use, Wind Blowing

Because I know that my character is developed from my own acts and thoughts, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.

Topics: Character, Development, Care

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

Topics: Differences, Defeat, Temporary, Temporary Defeat

All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind.

Topics: Mind, Use, Results

You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.

Topics: Hands, Mind, Wish, Subconscious Mind

I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects

Topics: Doe, Benefits, Transactions

You know, it's not more knowledge, it's not more education, it's not more facts that we need. It's a better use of what we already have that we need to have. You have each and every one of you, within your potential power right now to do a wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it.

Topics: Jobs, Use, Fields

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil. Self-confident faith in one's self is both the man-made weapon which defeats this devil and the man-made tool which builds a triumphant life. And it is more than that. It is a link to the irresistible forces of the universe which stand behind a man who does not believe in failure and defeat as being anything but temporary experiences.

Topics: Believe, Men, Self, Irresistible Force

Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity

Topics: Home, Opportunity, People, Spares, Seminars

When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.

Topics: Hard Work, Thinking, Mind

You either control your mind or it controls you.

Topics: Mind, Think Rich Grow Rich

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

Topics: Advice, Way, Good Advice, Good Living

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

Topics: Effort, Made, Minutes, Could Have Been

The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.

Topics: Beautiful, Mind, World, Beautiful Thoughts

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

Topics: Ideas, Mind, Stagnant

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

Topics: People, Leaving, Doubt, Negative Influence

The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.

Topics: Powerful, Commitment, Simple

Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. 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.

Topics: Waiting, Tools, May

No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind

Topics: Two, Creating, Mind, Two Minds

Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.

Topics: Helping Others, May, Helping

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which 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.

Topics: Persistence, Men, Creating, Marketing And Sales, Failure In Life

Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

Topics: Character, Influence, Persons

Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

Topics: Poor, Found, Fear And Faith, Bedfellows

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil

Topics: Men, Devil, Tools

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

Topics: Order, Environment, Influence

The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.

Topics: Men, Long, Already Gone

A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.

Topics: Attitude, Sick, Mind

Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

Topics: Integrity, Character, Looks

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

source: - Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2008). “Timeless Thoughts for Today”, p.15, Jaico Publishing House

Topics: Opportunity, Doors, Mind, Negative Thoughts

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

source: - Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.42, Penguin

Topics: Mind, Want, Fixed

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

Topics: Persistence, Desire, Wish

Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

Topics: Real, Adversity, Hours, Real Courage

Most illness begins with a negative mind.

Topics: Mind, Negative, Illness, Negative Mind

You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind

source: - Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.52, Penguin

Topics: Mind

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

Topics: Firsts

Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

Topics: Knowing, Want, Wells

The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.

Topics: Giving, Advice, World

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