Top 722 Quotes & Sayings by Napoleon Hill - Page 10

The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.

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.

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.

Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.

If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.

It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.

Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.

Your associates can be priceless.

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences.

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it!

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

No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.

The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.

God has given us control over one thing in our lives - our thoughts.

FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE!

Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself

When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.

No one can keep you down but yourself

If you fail to plan,you can plan to fail.

You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.

You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.

The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.

First you get a habit, then it gets you.

No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.

I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.

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.

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.

If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

One who has loved truly can never lose entirely.

Plan you work and work your plan.

Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.

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

Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.

Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.

Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.

No two minds ever come together without a third invisible force, which may be likened to a 'third mind.' When a group of individual minds are coordinated and function in harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance becomes available to every individual in the group.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself.

Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.

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.

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

Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.

Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.