A biography for Napoleon Hillhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”
“When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”
“Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.”
“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”
“Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
“Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious experiences, and all sensations which reach the brain through the five physical senses.”
“The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.”
“Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.”
“Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence staked their lives on the decision to affix their signatures to that document.”
“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”
“Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.”
“Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.”
“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”
“Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.”
“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.”
“Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”
“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.”