Quotes from Napoleon Hill

The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends them a loaf of bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them an entertainment to make them forget for an hour or two; but inspiration will cause them to rise out of their misery. If you want to help the poor, demonstrate to them that they can become rich; prove it by getting rich yourself.

If those who seek happiness would stop one little minute and think, they would see that the delights they already experience are as countless as the grasses at their feet, or the dewdrops sparkling upon the morning flowers.

Every man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him the ladder by which he rises, and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to do so.

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

Beethoven was deaf, Milton was blind, but their names will last as long as time endures, because they dreamed and translated their dreams into organized thought.

stated this universal truth through these lines: I bargained with Life for a penny,   And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening   When I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer,   He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages,   Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire,   Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life,   Life would have willingly paid.

Successful men, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge acquiring period ends when one finishes school. The truth is that schooling does but little more than to put one in the way of learning how to acquire practical knowledge.

An unsettled mind is helpless. Indecision makes an unsettled mind.

The greatest among ye shall be the servant of all.

autosuggestion as a way of altering your habits and beliefs so that you can make yourself into the master salesperson you want to become.

When Divine Intelligence wants a great man or woman to render some needed service in the world, the fortunate one is tested out through some form of FAILURE. If you are undergoing what you believe to be failure, have patience; you may be passing through your testing time.

All disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation of the law of love. Man's boomerangs of hate, resentment and criticism, come back laden with sickness and sorrow.