Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Way More Than a Few of my Favorite Napoleon Hill Quotes

"Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious."

"People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often."

"You can be anything you want to be, if only you beleive with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

"The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help."

"Faith is the 'eternal elixir' which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all of acumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all 'miracles' and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure."

"Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession."

 

"When defet comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."

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

"No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative."

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

"A Positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done."

"Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly."

 

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along."

"It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind."

"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge."

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the reult of selfishness."

""The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind."

"If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction."


"Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire."

"If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome."

"I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess."

"If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity."

"It isn't defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you."

"The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others."

"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.""Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of attraction."

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."


"Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and consistently direct them towards your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals."

"You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement."

"If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day's work you have done today?"

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

"The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm."

"If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you already have, you will obtain results a great deal faster."

"No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of great fortune, without the cooperation of other people."

"Attend well to your character, and you reputation will look out for itself."


"There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering a useful service."

"Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty."

"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let them."

"Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown."

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

"Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time."

"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."

"Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end."

"The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas."


"The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work."

"There is a difference between failure and temorary defeat."

"Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity,"

"Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire."

"Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it."

"If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it."

"Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it."

"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."

"A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them."

"Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort,"

"Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called failures are only temporary defeats."

"Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances."

"If you don't want your life to be 'messed up', don't fool around with those who have messed up theirs."

"Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought."

"When you close the door of your mind to negitive thoughts, the door opportunity opens to you."

"The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planing and action stage."


"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

"You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own enviroment. You can make your life what you want it to be."

"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing."

"It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how mush he recieves for his service, or the number of people he may be servicing or the class of people served."

"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to posses superhuman powers to achieve."

"One must marry one's feeling to ones beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life."

"A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.""It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project"


"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desires and begin at once, whether your ready or not, to put this plan into action."

"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind."

"Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you."

"The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face."

"If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance."

"If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions."

"Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. you must make a move to be victorious."

"Life reflects your own thoughts back to you."


"Nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith."

"Indecision is the seedling of fear."

"Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be."

"Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis."

"Live each day as if it were your last, and you'll develop a keen respect for opportunity."

"The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it."

"Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!"

"Failure is a keen trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes a great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach."


"To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to 'know' is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do."

"The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind."

"Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order."

"Both success and failure are largly the result of habit."

"One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word impossible."

"We see see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving."

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."

"Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life."

"Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.""Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect."

"Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind."

"Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure."

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."

"Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life; not what you don't want."


"No one's ready for a thing, until they beleive that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish."

"The man who dose more that he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does."

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.""First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you."

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

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

"When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds."