Napoleon Hill
» Achievement » “The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.”
» Action » “The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”
» Action » “Action is the real measure of intelligence.”
» Action » “Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don’t feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.”
» Action » “Do not wait; the time will never be ”just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
» Adversity » “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
» Belief » “What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
» Character » “Character is to man what carbon is to steel.”
» Choice » “It is always your next move.”
» Concentration » “The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.”
» Conflict » “Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.”
» Control » “If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
» Control » “No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy — unless you let him.”
» Cooperation » “If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.”
» Critics and Criticism » “If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge””
» Decisions » “Indecision is the seedling of fear.”
» Desire » “Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”
» Desire » “When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”
» Desire » “Through some strange and powerful principle of ”mental chemistry” which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ”that something” which recognizes no such word as ”impossible,” and accepts no such reality as failure.”
» Desire » “The battle is all over except the ‘’shouting” when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.”
» Desire » “The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.”
» Dreams » “Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”
» Education » “Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”
» Effort » “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
» Environment » “We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.”
» Excellence » “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.”
» Excellence » “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.”
» Excellence » “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
» Experience » “It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.”
» Extra Mile » “The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
» Failure » “When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”
» Failure » “Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”
» Failure » “Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.”
» Failure » “No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.”
» Fear » “Fears are nothing more than states of mind.”
» Fear » “The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.”
» Giving » “There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.”
» Giving » “You give before you get.”
» Goals » “There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”
» Goals » “A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
» Growth » “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle…”
» Honesty » “Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.”
» Ideas » “All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.”
» Ideas » “Ideas… they have the power
