Napoleon Hill
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
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.
There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
It is always your next move.
Think and grow rich.
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.Collection: People
The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.Collection: Imagination
Success is knowing what you're doing, loving what you're doing, and believing what you're doingCollection: Believe
If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.Collection: Believe
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.Collection: Inspirational
Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.Collection: Mind
Failure cannot cope with persistence.Collection: Life
Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!Collection: Inspirational
When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.Collection: Opportunity
You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.Collection: Mean
Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.Collection: Stopping
A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.Collection: Wisdom
A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.Collection: Mind
You either control your mind or it controls you.Collection: Mind
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.Collection: Inspirational
Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failureCollection: Inspirational
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.Collection: Imagination
You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.Collection: Hurt