Quotes from Napoleon Hill

Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.

You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

If you think your lot in life has been hard read "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement.

They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts.

NOTHING which life has to offer is worth the price of worry

The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.

You give before you get.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Think and grow rich.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.

If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you already have, instead of requests for things you do not have, you will obtain results much faster.

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.