Quotes from Napoleon Hill

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

Take inventory of yourself, see if any remnants of fear are standing in your way. Then you may grow... because nothing, absolutely nothing, can stand in your way.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

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

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

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

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Worry is a state of mind based on fear.