Napoleon
Hill Quotes
Author
of
Think
& Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill’s “Think
& Grow Rich” is almost a classic which has influenced Millions of aspiring
minds and has also turned many sluggish minds into aspiring Minds.
If you want success, you
must first define it. Then, map it, plan it, seek it and achieve it. That is
what Napoleon Hill enables us to do. Here are some Great Quotes from Hill.
The words in BOLD – must keep
you thinking for a while, before you proceed further!
Ø A
goal is a dream with a deadline.
Ø Set
your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly
the world stands aside to let you pass.
Ø The
starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in
mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small
amount of heat.
Ø Desire
is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen
pulsating desire which transcends everything
Ø When
your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman
powers to achieve.
Ø The
world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show
that he knows where he is going.
Ø Desire
backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.
Ø There
is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to
receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it.
The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness
is essential for belief.
Ø 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.
Ø Remember
that the moment you reduce the statement of your desire, and a plan
for its realization, to writing, you have actually taken the first of a
series of steps, which will enable you to convert the thought into its physical
counterpart.
Ø Do
not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where
you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better
tools will be found as you go along.
Ø If
you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.
Ø Whatever
the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Ø 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.
Ø Our
only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.
Ø The
man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he
does.
Ø Every
adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the
seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Ø When
defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are
not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your
coveted goal.
Ø 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.
Ø Procrastination
is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have
been done the day before yesterday.
Ø 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.
Ø If
you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A
QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write
it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see
it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.
Ø That
is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in
by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune,
or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
Ø “If
you think you are beaten, you are,
If
you think you dare not, you don’t.
If
you like to win, but you think you can’t,
It
is almost certain you won’t.
If
you think you’ll lose, you’re lost,
For
out in the world we find,
Success
begins with a fellow’s will;
It’s
all in the state of MIND.
If
you think you’re outclassed, you are,
You’ve
got to think high to rise,
You’ve
got to be sure of yourself before
You
can ever win a prize.
Ø Life’s
battles, don’t always go
To
the stronger or faster man
But
soon or later the man who wins
Is
the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!”
Ø Let
us consider the power of FAITH, as it is now being demonstrated, by a
man who is well known to all of civilization, Mahatma Gandhi, of India. In this
man the world has one of the most astounding examples known to civilization, of
the possibilities of FAITH. Gandhi wields more potential power than any man
living at this time, and this, despite the fact that he has none of the
orthodox tools of power, such as money, battle ships, soldiers, and materials
of warfare. Gandhi has no money, he has no home, he does not own a suit of
clothes, but HE DOES HAVE POWER. How does he come by that power? HE CREATED IT
OUT OF HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRINCIPLE OF FAITH, AND THROUGH HIS ABILITY TO
TRANSPLANT THAT FAITH INTO THE MINDS OF TWO HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE. Gandhi has
accomplished, through the influence of FAITH, that which the strongest military
power on earth could not, and never will accomplish through soldiers and
military equipment. He has accomplished the astounding feat of INFLUENCING two
hundred million minds to COALESCE AND MOVE IN UNISON, AS A SINGLE MIND. What
other force on earth, except FAITH could do as much?
Ø Remember,
the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself
determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the
one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't.
Ø It
is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions
constitute the dominating influence of your mind.
Ø The
cause of the depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying
to reap without sowing.
Ø The
oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision
of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.
Ø The
most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of
keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.
Ø There
is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his
watch-word, discovers that “Old Man Failure” finally becomes tired, and makes
his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.
Ø You
have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can
only have one or the other.
Ø Patience,
persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination
for success.
Ø Remember
that your dominating thoughts attract, through
a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their
physical counterpart. Be careful what your thoughts dwell upon.
Ø Your
poverty is serving no one. If you’re a charitable person, you’d be a whole lot
more charitable if you had lots of money.
Ø The
possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are
stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
Ø One
sound idea is all that one needs to achieve success.
Ø A
long while ago, a great warrior faced a situation which made it necessary for
him to make a decision which insured his success on the battlefield. He was
about to send his armies against a powerful foe, whose men outnumbered his own.
He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy’s country, unloaded
soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried
them. Addressing his men before the first battle, he said, “You see the boats
going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we
win! We now have no choice—we win, or we perish!” They won.
Ø The
great leaders of business, industry, finance, and the great artists, musicians,
poets, and writers became great, because they developed the faculty of creative
imagination.
Ø The
object of your definite chief aim should become your "hobby." You
should ride this "hobby" continuously; you should sleep with it, eat
with it, play with it, work with it, live with it and THINK with it.
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