Quotes from Napoleon Hill

If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it.

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

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.

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.

Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they arrive. The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their other selves.

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

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.

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.

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.

You become what you think about.