Quotes from Napoleon Hill

Discipline comes through self-control. This means that one must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is TIME. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by TIME. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate INDECISION!

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way).

Being a philosopher as well as a preacher, Dr. Gunsaulus recognized, as do all who succeed in life, that DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE is the starting point from which one must begin. He recognized, too, that definiteness of purpose takes on animation, life, and power when backed by a BURNING DESIRE to translate that purpose into its material equivalent.

The "capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged" is "the chief asset of every man who attains outstanding success in any calling.

You have ABSOLUTE CONTROL over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts known to man! It reflects man's Divine nature.

All so-called revelations, referred to in the realm of religion, and all discoveries of basic or new principles in the field of invention, take place through the faculty of creative imagination.

Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.

You impress upon your subconscious mind an idea, plan, concept, or belief. Repetition of positive suggestions to your subconscious mind is the most effective way of educating it to broadcast only positive messages.

If you are one of those who believe that hard work and honesty, alone, will bring riches, perish the thought! It is not true!

Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work! Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck. Generally speaking, an idea is an impulse of thought that impels action