Quotes from Napoleon Hill

Those who can't take directions graciously have no business giving them

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn, is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.

Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.