Quotes from Napoleon Hill

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

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

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.

Capability means imagination.

Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

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.

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

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.

One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!

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

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

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

What the mind cab conceive, it can achieve

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.

Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.