Napoleon Hill was an American author in the area of the new thought movement who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich (1937), is one of the best-selling books of all time (at the time of Hill's death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies). Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. He became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1936. "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" is one of Hill's hallmark expressions. How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach of the average person, were the focal points of Hill's books.
“Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach”
“What the mind can conceive, it can ACHIEVE!”
“Life's battles don't always goTo the stronger of faster man,But soon or later the man who winsIs the man who thinks he can!”
“Quand la défaite surgit, acceptez-la comme le signal quevos plans ne sont pas cohérents, reconstruisez ces plans, etreprenez la voile une fois de plus vers vos aspirations. Si vousabandonnez avant d’avoir atteint votre but, vous êtes un“lâcheur”.”
“UN LÂCHEUR NE GAGNE JAMAIS ET UNGAGNEUR NE LÂCHE JAMAIS.”
“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.”
“One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.”
“Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.”
“TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.”
“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.”
“Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.”
“You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.”
“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.”
“It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.”
“Successful men become successful only because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success.”
“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”
“Thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire...”
“the world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.”
“Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving”
“There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit”
“Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!”
“Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love." Napoleon Hill”
“We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.”
“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
“(Whatever human mind can conceive, it can achieve!)”
“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.”
“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.”
“The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”
“Μια από τις κύριες αδυναμίες της ανθρωπότητας εντοπίζεται στην εξοικείωση του μέσου ανθρώπου με τη λέξη "αδύνατον". Ο άνθρωπος γνωρίζει συνήθως όλους του κανόνες που δεν είναι αποτελεσματικοί. Γνωρίζει όλα αυτά που δεν μπορεί να κάνει.”
“thoughts are things”
“Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.”
“If you must slander someone, don't speak it - but write it - write it in the sand, near the water's edge!”
“Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself”
“More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self”
“Great Minds Quotes @GreatestQuotes "The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.”
“The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”
“Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.”
“If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.”
“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.”
“A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.”
“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
“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.”
“Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.”
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”
“Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.”
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
“An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.”
“When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”
“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.”
“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”