Napoleon Hill Quotes

“Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.”

“All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.”

“Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.”

“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”

“The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .”

“Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.”

“One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.”

“Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.”

“Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.”

“If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility.”

“Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.”

“The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.”

“If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day’s work you have done today?”

“If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.”

“We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.”

“Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.”

“Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.”

“The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.”

“Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.”

“If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.”

“Riches begin in the form of thought.”

“Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you”

“If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”

“The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.”

“What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.”