Quotes from Napoleon Hill

success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.

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

It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature.

If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things. Your mind is your spiritual estate! Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled. You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose.

There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit

Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no hall-way compromise.

First: I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose, therefore I demand of myself persistent, aggressive and continuous action toward its attainment.

The object of your definite chief aim should become your hobby. You should ride this hobby continuously; you should sleep with it, eat with it, play with it, work with it, live with it and THINK with it.

You have been endowed with the power to use the most highly organized form of energy known to man, that of thought.

From what you say, I infer that time is the friend of the person who trains his mind to follow positive thought-habits and the enemy of the person who drifts into negative thought-habits.

Thoughts are things, and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire...

Awake, arise, and assert yourself, you dreamers of the world.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application towards some worthy end.

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

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

FAITH and FEAR make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

If you must slander someone, don't speak it - but write it - write it in the sand, near the water's edge!

Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts only upon thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.

The leaders in every walk of life decide quickly, and firmly. That is the major reason why they are leaders. The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Power is organized effort, as has already been stated! Success is based upon power!

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

Love is, without question, life's greatest experience.