Quotes By Napoleon Hill

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

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

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

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.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

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

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.