Napoleon Hill

"Goals are dreams with a deadline."

"If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way."

"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

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

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."

"Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do."

"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

"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."

"Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success."

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

"We all have the right to take possession of our own mind and direct it towards all we desire"

"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing."

"Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best."

"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."

"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another."

"Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent."

"You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself."