Quotes from Napoleon Hill

read a biography of Mohammed, especially the one by Essad Bey.

LACK OF CONTROLLED SEXUAL URGE. Sex energy is the most powerful of all the stimuli which move people into ACTION. Because it is the most powerful of the emotions, it must be controlled, through transmutation, and converted into other channels.

If you don't believe it yourself, don't ask anyone else to do so.

Without persistence, you will be defeated even before you start. With persistence you will win.

Study the lives of all people who achieve outstanding success in any calling and observe, with profit, that their success is usually in exact ratio to their experiences of defeat before succeeding.

qual era o seu maior problema. Ele respondeu: "Não é uma questão de maior ou menor; nós temos apenas um problema, e este problema é parar o medo e suplantá-lo com a fé".

Sympathy can never hinder success. It is selfishness that blights and destroys. As goodwill increases, man's prosperity will increase. All interests are mutual, and stand or fall together, and as sympathy expands the heart, it extends the circle of influence, making blessings, both spiritual and material, to more greatly abound.

An appearance of prosperity attracts attention always, with no exceptions whatsoever. Moreover, a look of prosperity attracts "favorable attention," because the one dominating desire in every human heart is to be prosperous.

POWER (man-power) is ORGANIZED KNOWLEDGE, EXPRESSED THROUGH INTELLIGENT EFFORTS!

You want to get rich in order that you may eat, drink, and be merry when it is time to do these things; in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love men and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.

Know, then, that when the dark night of sorrow, pain, or misfortune settles down upon your soul, and you stumble along with weary and uncertain steps, that you are merely intercepting your own personal desires between yourself and the boundless light of joy and bliss, and the dark shadow that covers you is cast by none and nothing but yourself.

sua maior fraqueza é a falta de autoconfiança. Essa

Indecision and procrastination are twin brothers.

A man's ego in his greatest asset or his greatest liability, according to the way he relates himself to it.

there is a solution for every legitimate problem, no matter how difficult the problem may seem.

HOW TO DEVELOP FAITH There comes, now, a statement which will give a better understanding of the importance the principle of auto-suggestion assumes in the transmutation of desire into its physical, or monetary equivalent; namely: FAITH is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion.

Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better'

Most illness begins with a negative mind.

There is no kindness in praise if it be followed by abuse. The love which seems to prompt the spontaneous kiss will be of little account if it be associated with a spontaneous spite.

If you are keenly interested in studying the strange power which gives potency to persistence, read a biography of Mohammed, especially the one by Essad Bey.

WRONG SELECTION OF A VOCATION. No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. The most essential step in the marketing of personal services is that of selecting an occupation into which you can throw yourself wholeheartedly.

Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions!

Um pensamento "magnetizado" com uma das emoções pode ser comparado a uma semente. Quando plantado em solo fértil, ele germina, cresce e se multiplica muitas e muitas vezes. O que originalmente era uma pequena semente se torna incontáveis milhões de sementes do mesmo tipo.

The most damaging forms of intolerance are those connected with religious, racial, and political differences of opinion.