“THE SEVEN MAJOR NEGATIVE EMOTIONS (To be avoided) The emotion of FEAR The emotion of JEALOUSY The emotion of HATRED The emotion of REVENGE The emotion of GREED The emotion of SUPERSTITION The emotion of ANGER”
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Napoleon Hill
“Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life, not on what you don’t want.”
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Napoleon Hill
“faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches!”
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Napoleon Hill
“The day of the “go-getter” has passed. He has been supplanted by the “go-giver.”
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Napoleon Hill
“What has chance ever done in the world? Has it built any cities? Has it invented any telephones, and telegraphs? Has it built any steamships, established any universities, any asylums, any hospitals? Was there any chance in Cæsar’s crossing the Rubicon? What had chance to do with Napoleon’s career, with Wellington’s, or Grant’s…? Every battle was won before it was begun. What had luck to do with Thermopylæ, Trafalgar, Gettysburg? Our successes we ascribe to ourselves; our failures to destiny.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Never ask anyone to do anything for you that you wouldn’t do for him or her if the circumstances were reversed.
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Napoleon Hill
“Fear of poverty is a state of mind, nothing else! But it is sufficient to destroy one’s chances of achievement in any undertaking, a truth which became painfully evident during the depression.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Watch the one ahead of you, and you’ll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
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Napoleon Hill
“I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Every brain is both a broadcasting station and a receiving station for the vibrations of thought.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in the form of an impulse of thought.”
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Napoleon Hill