Quotes from Napoleon Hill

If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear. The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you?

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.

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

There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that "Old Man Failure" finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.

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. Napoleon Hill

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

both success and failure are largely the results of habit!

knowledge is power." It is nothing of the sort! 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.

Adversity will do something too you or for you.......

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.

That is one of the tricks of 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.

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

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

Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.

the cause of the depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing.

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

Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.

The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan. And A man whose mind is filled with fear not only destroys his own chances of intelligent action, but he transmits these destructive vibrations to the minds of all who come in contact with him, and destroys, also, their chances.

Successful men become successful only because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success.