Napoleon Hill Quotes

Successful men become successful only because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success.

Your only limitation is the one which you set up in your own mind.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes — NAPOLEON HILL

Remember that your real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are.

The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

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

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

The person who moves with definiteness recognizes the difference between temporary defeat and failure. When plans fail he substitutes others but he does not change his purpose. He perseveres.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it.