Quotes about Achievement
The object is to want money, and to become so determined to have it that you convince yourself you will have it.
— Napoleon Hill
More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known, told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.
— Napoleon Hill
More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known, told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. 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.
— Napoleon Hill
Henry Ford is a success, because he understands, and applies the principles of success. One of these is DESIRE: knowing what one wants.
— Napoleon Hill
Your business in life is, presumably to achieve success. To be successful, you must find peace of mind, acquire the material needs of life, and above all, attain HAPPINESS. All of these evidences of success begin in the form of thought impulses.
— Napoleon Hill
The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.
— Napoleon Hill
Set a high standard for yourself.
— Napoleon Hill
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
— Napoleon Hill
OPPORTUNITY has spread its wares before you. Step up to the front, select what you want, create your plan, put the plan into action, and follow through with PERSISTENCE.
— Napoleon Hill
The moment you complete this, you will have DEFINITELY given concrete form to the intangible DESIRE. Read the preceding sentence once more.
— Napoleon Hill
The accumulation of great fortunes calls for POWER, and power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge, but that knowledge does not, necessarily, have to be in the possession of the man who accumulates the fortune.
— Napoleon Hill
This idea of starting at the bottom and working one's way up may appear to be sound, but the major objection to it is this— too many of those who begin at the bottom never manage to lift their heads high enough to be seen by opportunity, so they remain at the bottom. It should be remembered, also, that the outlook from the bottom is not so very bright or encouraging.
— Napoleon Hill