Napoleon Hill
106 quotes
Biography
Oliver Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author and con man who is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937), which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life.
"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another."
"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."
"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
"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."
"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."
"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."
"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."
"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."
"The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat."
"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
"You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be."
"If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way."
"Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along."
"The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge."
"A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits."
"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing."
"To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents."
"I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself."
"You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize."
"A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him."
"Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought"
"There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge."
"You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself."
"You become what you think about"