Quotes from Napoleon Hill

The motive of self-preservation The motive of financial gain The motive of love The motive of sexuality The motive of desire for power and fame The motive of fear The motive of revenge The motive of freedom (of body and mind) The motive of desire to create or build in thought or in material

You will never have a definite purpose in life, you will never have self-confidence, you will never have initiative and leadership unless you first create these qualities in your imagination and see yourself in possession of them.

Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.

Cold reasoning has no influence whatsoever on the subconscious mind. The subconscious responds only to the impulses of thought that have been emotionalized or mixed with strong feelings.

The world does not pay men for that which they know. It pays them for what they DO, or induce others to do.

You cannot succeed when surrounded by disloyal and unfriendly associates, no matter what may be the object of your definite chief aim. Success is built upon loyalty, faith, sincerity, co-operation and the other positive forces with which one must surcharge his environment.

Todos os desejos negativos não são nada exceto frustrações de desejos positivos. Eles são inspirados por alguma forma de derrota, fracasso ou negligência por parte dos seres humanos em se adaptarem às leis da natureza de forma positiva.

He should have told us, too, that our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts which we hold in our minds, and, by means with which no man is familiar, these "magnets" attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts

Riches begin in the form of thought! The amount is limited only by the person in whose mind the thought is put into motion. Faith removes limitations!

I now pray, not for more of this world's goods and greater blessings, but to be worthy of that which I already have.

every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind, and with this control, obviously, every person may open his mind to the tramp thought impulses which are being released by other brains, or close the doors tightly and admit only thought impulses of his own choice.

The world is controlled by emotions.

He had never heard that more gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth.

Visualization Of, and Belief in Attainment of Desire: The Second Step toward Riches

When you get yourself under complete control, you can be your own boss.

cuando uno está verdaderamente preparado para algo, hace que se manifieste".

9. Lack of persistence. Most of us are good "starters" but poor "finishers" of everything we begin. Moreover, people are prone to give up at the first signs of defeat. There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that "Old Man Failure" finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.

The cause of failure is doing too many things in an inefficient manner, and not doing enough things in an efficient manner.

But this argument is found to be defective when examined in its effects and consequences.

The salesperson who can appeal to the buyer's emotions or feelings will make ten sales for every one made by the salesperson who appeals to buyers through their reason alone.

the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.

A man may become a walking encyclopaedia of knowledge without possessing any power of value. This knowledge becomes power only to the extent that it is organized, classified and put into action.

The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile." Another

He recalled, too, his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold, but, he said, that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.