Quotes from Napoleon Hill

faith removes limitations!

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

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

Remember that your real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are.

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

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

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

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Your only limitation is the one which you set up in your own mind.

The person who moves with definiteness recognizes the difference between temporary defeat and failure. When plans fail he substitutes others but he does not change his purpose. He perseveres.

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

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy; unless you let him.

He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it.

Nature will not tolerate idleness or vacuums of any sort. All space must be and is filled with something . . . When the individual does not use the brain for the expression of positive, creative thoughts, nature fills the vacuum by forcing the brain to act upon negative thoughts.

Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself

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

Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!

Opinions" are the cheapest commodities on earth.

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

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you;until you have culrivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind

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