Quotes About Achievement

and A Lifetime of Riches: The Biography of Napoleon Hill

Motive is the seed from which big sales grow.

If your goal or desire is within reason and it is strong enough, the magic key of concentration will help you attain it.

And that is another of the queer traits of Creative Vision. Those who use it get their work done with a minimum amount of hard work.

Beethoven was deaf, Milton was blind, but their names will last as long as time endures, because they dreamed and translated their dreams into organized thought.

Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill

The person who forms the habit of directing his attention to the important facts out of which he is constructing his Temple of Success, thereby provides himself with a power which may be likened to a triphammer which strikes a ten-ton blow as compared to a tack-hammer which strikes a one-pound blow!

Henry Ford has been repeatedly mentioned, because he is an astounding example of what a man with a mind of his own, and a will to control it, can accomplish.

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Note the Strong Man. He sees a thing to do and immediately DOES it. The thing may look trivial. It may even seem the work of some other fellow. But without hesitancy, as though dispute was greater than the task, the Strong Man gets the thing Done — so that he may have Time for other and Bigger things.

Hon. Manuel L. Quezon (then Resident Commissioner of the Philippine Islands), was inspired by the secret to gain freedom for his people. He has gained freedom for the Philippines, and is the first President of the free state.

Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all individual achievement is the adoption of a definite major purpose and a specific plan for its attainment.   22.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

The Successful are they that See and Do — the Unsuccessful are they that See — and do not Do.

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

The most successful men and women on earth have had to correct certain weak spots in their personalities before they began to succeed.

The "capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged" is "the chief asset of every man who attains outstanding success in any calling.

In Search of Excellence, escolhido

There is a satisfaction and a feeling of latent Strength in the breast of a man who Starts a thing — and Finishes it. You will find this true if you do it. The most important task is always the task at hand. Complete it. Make it stand square and clean when you leave it. Look it over. Be sure no Ragged Edges remain.

most men will work harder for commendation and recognition than they will for money alone.

Give me all the money I need, and I will find everything else I want.

He knew that the mind could produce ANYTHING THE MIND COULD CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE, and the knowledge was the thing that lifted the great Edison above the common herd.