Napoleon Hill

Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation 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!

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

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.

Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

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.

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

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

Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

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.

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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.

Knowledge is only potential power.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.