"Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it."
Napoleon Hill
Author, Motivational Speaker
Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author known for his influential book 'Think and Grow Rich,' which focuses on the principles of success and personal achievement.
- Born
- October 26, 1883
- Died
- November 8, 1970
- Quotes
- 711
- Rank
- #319
Quote collection
Napoleon Hill quotes (page 11 of 36)
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"What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement."
"Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!"
"Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure"
"Capability means imagination."
"Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can."
"If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions."
"The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined."
"You can always become the person you would have liked to be."
"Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are."
"The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck.""
"Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas."
"You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off."
"If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after."
"IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them."
"Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are."
"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited."
"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
"Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations."
"To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself."