Quotes from Napoleon Hill

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . .

There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

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.

Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.

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

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.

You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they arrive. The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their other selves.

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

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

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

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what your thoughts dwell upon.

Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

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

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.

You become what you think about

If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a quitter. A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.