Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
There is 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.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
