Napoleon Hill

The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

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.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Think and grow rich.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

You give before you get.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.