Quotes from Napoleon Hill

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

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

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.

You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is 'rider' and who is 'horse.'

Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.

When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.

Practice being grateful for everything that life has blessed you with.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.

You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.

That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hopes and plans.

Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.

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.

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.

What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

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