No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
— Napoleon Hill
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
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.
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Think and grow rich.
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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.
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.
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
It is always your next move.
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.
There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
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.
