Napoleon Hill Quotes

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

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.

First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.

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

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.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

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.

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

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.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

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 adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!