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The power of thought

• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
• I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality; therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture.
• Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
• Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
• Truly, ‘thoughts are things,’ and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.
• That which you think today becomes that which you are tomorrow.
• It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.
• A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
• A person’s acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.
• Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.
• Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.
• We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
• You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.

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Life comes to reflects our thoughts

• Life is a mirror of your consistent thoughts.
• Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.
• Whatever your mind feeds upon your mind attracts to you.
• Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
• I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality.
• Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on.

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You become what you think about

• You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind.
• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
• Whatever you think today becomes what you are tomorrow.
• You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.
• Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.
• You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!

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Control your mind

• We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
• You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny.  If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.
• You either control your mind or it controls you.
• You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.
• Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
• If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.
• The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.
• Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.
• Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!
• God has given us control over one thing in our lives – our thoughts.
• You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts.

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The power of ideas

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
• Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
• .. they have the power.
• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
• Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.
• First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
• It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don’t make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don’t assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.
• Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.
• Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.
• No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.
• The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
• The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.
• One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.

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The power of imagination

• 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.
• 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.
• Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
• Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you.
• Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.
• Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.
• Man’s only limitation, within reason, lies in the development and use of his imagination.
• The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.
• The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

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The power of a positive attitude

• Your mental attitude is something you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a positive mental attitude – your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
• Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.
• Change your mental attitude, and the World around you will change accordingly.
• Your own mental attitude is your real boss.
• Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!
• Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.
• A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.
• A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the “plus” characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.
• Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.
• Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
• The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.
• The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.
• You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is ‘rider’ and who is ‘horse.’
• Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
• Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.
• A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.

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The power of the subconscious

• The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with “feeling” or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind.
• You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.
• The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith.
• The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as “misfortune” or “bad luck.
• Here is a most significant fact-the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before they are interpreted by the subconscious mind.
• Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the POWER TO INFLUENCE HIS OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, and through it, gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence.
• The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

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Desire

• Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
• If you fail to plant desires in your subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts which reach it as the result of your neglect.
• The ease with which lack of persistence may be conquered will depend entirely upon the intensity of one’s desire.
• The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. If you find yourself lacking in persistence, this weakness may be removed by building a stronger fire under your desires.
• When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
• 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 backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.
• First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.
• Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
• I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.
• You wouldn’t desire something if you didn’t have the talent to carry it out.
• Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.
• All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
• Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.
• Nothing constructive and worthy of man’s efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.
• Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.
• Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
• Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

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Commitment

• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win, essential to success.
• Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

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Clarity and purpose

• The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
• There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
• The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.
• Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies and spreads his thoughts over so many subjects and in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision and weakness.
• Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand. Napoleon Hill
• Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.
• Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.
• If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.
• What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a definite purpose, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

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Vision

• Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
• Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
• What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
• Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

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Goal setting

• A goal is a dream with a deadline.
• Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

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Planning

• Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
• If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which 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.
• Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
• If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.” You need a definite plan, it should be written down, and it should dictate, with military precision, the moves that you will be taking.  Napoleon Hill said, “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.
• Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.
• Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
• 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.
• The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.

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Action

• Action is the real measure of intelligence.
• Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
• Most ideas are stillborn, and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives, gives it a better chance of surviving.
• To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to “know” is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.
• Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.
• The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.
• Men of action usually win – that is one of their distinctive features.
• By all means tell the world how good you are – but do it with actions, not words.

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Start where you are

• Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
• Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the “time to be right” to start doing something worthwhile.
• Memorize the selfstarter DO IT NOW! DO IT NOW! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don’t feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

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Do what you love

• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
• No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
• One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money- madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which they like best. Everyone should find his or her particular niche in the world’s work, where both material prosperity and happiness in abundance may be found.
• Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
• Success is knowing what you’re doing, loving what you’re doing, and believing what you’re doing.
• Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
• Cherish the music that stirs in your heart.
• If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don’t like.
• A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

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Do what you are good at

• There is some one thing that you can do better than anyone else in the world could do it. Search until you find out what this particular line of endeavor is, then organize all of your forces and attack it with the belief that you are going to win.

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Focus

• The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
• Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don’t want.
• Keep your mind focused on what you want and act accordingly. You will achieve success!
• Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

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Decisiveness

• Indecision is the seedling of fear.
• The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
• Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.
• Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
• People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.
• The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.
• Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.

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Effort

• Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
• Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
• The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
• There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
• Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
• Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.

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Enthusiasm

• Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
• The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.
• Enthusiasm is contagious, and the person who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people.
• Enthusiasm, if fuelled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.
• When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.

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Self-control and self-discipline

• If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
• Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
• Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
• Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

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Patience and persistence

• Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
• The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on despite all opposition, until they attain their goal. There may be no heroic connotation to the word ‘persistence,’ but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.
• The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
• Those who have cultivated the habit of persistence seem to enjoy insurance against failure… The hidden Guide lets no one enjoy great achievement without passing the persistence test. Those who can’t take it simply do not make the grade.
• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
• The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.
• One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
• Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
• Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
• Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.
• Failure cannot cope with persistence.
• Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

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Exceed expectations

• The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
• 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.
• One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.

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Excellence

• If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.
• If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day’s work you have done today?

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Do your best

• 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.

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Help others

• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
• The only person to get even with are those who have helped you.

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Service

• Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.
• Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.
• 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.
• Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.
• There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
• The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.
• Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to ‘get’ is to first ‘give’ through some sort of useful service.

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Knowledge

• Knowledge is only potential power; the wise application of knowledge is where the true power lies.
• Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.
• Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.
• Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
• Knowledge is only potential power.
• Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.
• An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.
• Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.
• Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.
• Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

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Learn

• Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
• The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
• One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.
• It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.
• If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

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Wisdom

• I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.
• Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.
• Scars are wisdom in disguise.

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Intelligence

• Money without brains is always dangerous.

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Loyalty

• Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.

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Modesty and silence

• Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
• Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

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Be tolerant

• Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
• The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

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Conscience

• If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you will never have real wealth based on peace of mind.
• If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

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Self-talk

• The single most influential force that controls your attitudes, beliefs, capabilities and emotions is repetition – the words you silently use, over and over again, in your internal dialogue with yourself.
• Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.

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Be yourself

• To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

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Courage

• Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.
• Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

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Habit

• It takes a habit to replace a habit.
• Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!
• Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

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Energy

• Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.

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Truth

• All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

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Advice and feedback

• Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.
• The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.

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Be the master of your destiny

• You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

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Initiative and proactiveness

• Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?
• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
• Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.
• A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.
• If your environment is not to your liking, change it!

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Personal power and agency

• Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Are you satisfied with where you are and the direction you are going? If not, take control of your life and change whatever needs to be changed. You and only you have the power to do this. You can change your world!
• You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world.

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Opportunity

• Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
• Live each day as if it were your last, and you’ll develop a keen respect for opportunity.
• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
• Do not search for SUCCESS off in the distance, but instead recognize it and grasp it right where you are!
• If it isn’t your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity.
• Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
• Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.
• Opportunity … It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
• If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way. Don’t wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.

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Character

• Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.
• I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.
• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
• Conceit is a fog that envelops a man’s real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .
• Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

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Responsibility

• Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

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Love

• You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.
• Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.
• Love is, without question life’s greatest experience.
• Believe in love and you will have love.
• One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.

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Happiness

• 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.
• You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.

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Smile

• When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

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Make the most of today

• Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

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True wealth

• Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.

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Sacrifice

• Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
• Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.

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Appreciation

• I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.
• If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you already have, instead of requests for things you do not have, you will obtain results much faster.
• A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.

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Be open to receive

• There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it. No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open- mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage and belief.
• It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.
• If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.
• When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

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Time management

• Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.
• Time is wealth, and unlike money when it is gone you cannot replace it.

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Belief

• Believe in poverty and you will be poor. Believe in wealth and you will be rich. Believe in love and you will have love. Believe in health and you will be healthy.
• No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish.
• 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.
• What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
• Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

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Self-belief

• Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
• If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.
• No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
• If the mind of man can believe, the mind of man can achieve.

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Faith

• Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.
• FAITH is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer.
• Faith is the “eternal elixir” which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all “miracles” and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure!
• FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.
• A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.
• Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion .
• Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.
• FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE!
• Have faith in yourself; faith in the infinite
• The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.
• You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.

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Genius

• 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.
• Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.

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Give to receive

• You give before you get.
• Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.
• Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.
• The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

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Integrity

• “When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity – regardless of what others may do – you are destined for greatness.

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Risk taking

• The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

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Abundance

• We live in a world of over-abundance and everything the heart could desire, with nothing standing between us and our desires, excepting lack of a definite purpose.

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Co-operation

• If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel.
• The Master Mind principle: Two or more people actively engaged in the pursuit of a definite purpose with a positive mental attitude, constitute an unbeatable force.
• When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony, and work toward a definite objective, they place themselves in position, through that alliance, to absorb power directly from the great universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence.
• No man can become a permanent success without taking others along with him.
• Man’s brain may be compared to an electric battery…a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

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Health

• No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.
• Believe in health and you will be healthy.

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Strength

• Out of resistance comes strength.
• Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!.

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Pleasure

• Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself – some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.

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Wealth consciousness

• Riches don’t respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
• If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
• If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.
• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
• Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.
• When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.
• When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.
• Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.
• Believe in wealth and you will be rich.
• Riches begin in the form of thought.

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Success consciousness

• Success come to those who become success conscious.
• Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you’ll be controlling the bigger ones.
• You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
• Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.
• Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one’s self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.
• The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.
• The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
• There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
• You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

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Failure

• 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.
• Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
• Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
• Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
• Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
• 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.
• No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
• 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.
• Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
• We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before ‘arriving.’
• 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.
• You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.
• What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it “temporary defeat.
• Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.
• Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.
• 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.
• Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

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Mistakes

• No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.
• You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

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Limitation

• There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
• Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds. Napoleon Hill

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Procrastination

• Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
• Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.
• You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.

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Adversity

• I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.
• Don’t be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the ‘Kite’ of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.
• Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.
• When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
• Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.
• Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

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Negativity

• Thoughts of fear and poverty, and all negative thoughts serve as stimuli to your subconscious mind, unless you master these impulses and give it more desirable food upon which it may feed.
• Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.
• Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.
• When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.
• A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.
• Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
• It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.
• Most illness begins with a negative mind.
• Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.
• Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.

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Problems

• All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.
• It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.
• Every problem comes with an equal or greater opportunity

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Struggle

• The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the wind and rains and scorching sun.

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Judgement

• No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

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Caring what others think

• If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

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Self-pity

• Remember that self-pity breeds weakness. It steals your self-reliance. Every failure and every adversity you meet brings you a wonderful opportunity to test your own moral courage. You become a stronger person because of it.

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Fear

• Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
• Fear is faith in reverse gear.
• Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.
• Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
• Fear is the tool of a man-made devil.
• A fearless man thrives on far horizons.
• Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
• The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
• We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.

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Worry

• Worry is a state of mind based upon fear. It works slowly, but persistently. It is insidious and subtle. Step by step it “digs itself in” until it paralyzes one’s reasoning faculty, destroys self-confidence and initiative. Worry is a form of sustained fear caused by indecision therefore it is a state of mind which can be controlled.
• NOTHING which life has to offer is worth the price of worry.
• Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.
• If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.

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Imitation

• We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

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• If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.
• Life is a do-it-yourself project.
• Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
• Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.
• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
• The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
• The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle, and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just as easy to switch over and get exactly what they want out of life, not recognizing that the mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.
• If you are sure you are right, you need not worry what the world thinks.
• You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.
• Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
• It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.
• Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.
• The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.
• If you don’t want your life to be ‘messed up’, don’t fool around with those who have messed up theirs.
• “Do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These laws are available to every person who has the faith and the courage to use them.
• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
• Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
• You can always become the person you would have liked to be.
• We become who we hang out with.

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• When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.
• The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn’t hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.