Napoleon Hill
American author of success philosophy, 1883-1970
72 quotes.
Quotes by Napoleon Hill
- One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.
- Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds
- Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
- 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.
- Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
- Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
- Success in this world is always a matter of individual effort, yet you will only be deceiving yourself if you believe that you can succeed without the co-operation of other people.
- Success is built upon loyalty, faith, sincerity, co-operation and the other positive forces with which one must surcharge his environment.
- The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.
- 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
- The habit of working with a definite chief aim will breed in you the habit of prompt decision, and this habit will come to your aid in all that you do.
- The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader.
- The suspense of indecision drives millions of people to failure.
- There can be no failure for the man who “still fights on.”
- These suggestions will give you the necessary instructions: First: Form the habit of doing each day the most distasteful tasks first.
- Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
- Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.
- Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
- When the final chapter of your life shall have been completed it will be found that your persistence, or lack of this sterling quality, played an important part in either your success or your failure.
- When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.
- When you deliver the best service of which you are capable, striving each time to excel all your previous efforts, you are making use of the highest form of education.
- You are condemning yourself to poverty, misery and failure, or you are driving yourself on toward the heights of great achievement, solely by the thoughts you think.
- You can get nowhere without persistence, a fact which cannot be too often repeated.
- You cannot talk initiative to others without developing a desire to practice it yourself.
- You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.
- You either control your mind or it controls you.
- You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.
- Your character is that which you are , as the results of your thoughts and deeds.
- Your mind is capable of creating many new and useful combinations of old ideas, but the most important thing it can create is a definite chief aim that will give you that which you most desire.
- Thought is the beginning of all wealth and all the mechanical or physical things created by man.
- Indecision is the seedling of fear.