“their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach.”
―
Napoleon Hill
“Before we can master an enemy, we must know its name, its habits, and its place of abode.”
―
Napoleon Hill
“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.”
―
Napoleon Hill
“time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth.
―
Napoleon Hill
“If your mental attitude is negative, if you complain and find fault with others, it will offset whatever you do, even if you do more than you are paid to do.”
―
Napoleon Hill
“It may interest you to know that Marconi’s “friends” had him taken into custody, and examined in a psychopathic hospital, when he announced he had discovered a principle through which he could send messages through the air, without the aid of wires, or other direct physical means of communication. The dreamers of today fare better.”
―
Napoleon Hill
“Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through “opinions” and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through “opinions” or ridicule.”
―
Napoleon Hill
“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.”
―
Napoleon Hill
“Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in thought.”
―
Napoleon Hill
“Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.”
―
Napoleon Hill
“Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.”
―
Napoleon Hill
“Impossible,” said he, “is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.”
―
Napoleon Hill
“Will-power and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.”
―
Napoleon Hill
