Napoleon Hill
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.Collection: Knowledge
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.Collection: Dreams
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.Collection: Business
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.Collection: Inspirational
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.Collection: Business
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.Collection: Success
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.Collection: Work
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.Collection: Great
Action is the real measure of intelligence.Collection: Intelligence
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.Collection: Patience
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.Collection: Great
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.Collection: Nature
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.Collection: Men
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.Collection: Alone
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.Collection: Time
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.Collection: Imagination
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.Collection: Best
Money without brains is always dangerous.Collection: Money
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.Collection: Hope
A goal is a dream with a deadline.Collection: Motivational
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.Collection: Failure
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.Collection: Brainy
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.Collection: Happiness
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.Collection: Fear
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.Collection: Food
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.Collection: Success
The starting point of all achievement is desire.Collection: Success
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.Collection: Failure
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.Collection: Time
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.Collection: Great
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.Collection: War
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.Collection: Best
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.Collection: Success
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.Collection: Life
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Imagination
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.Collection: Men
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.Collection: Strength
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.Collection: Success
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.Collection: Success
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.Collection: Education
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
You give before you get.