Napoleon Hill Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.

Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

It is one of the strangest anomalies of life that the absence of fear, and not formal education or brilliance of mind, is the major cause of individual success.

Somehow the Creator seems to favor those who know precisely what they want and what they do not want.

You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear. The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you?

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

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

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

During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.

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

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

A philosophy a system of principles that will guide your thoughts and actions.

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.