If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“I am also trying to emphasize another point, namely, that both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Every adversity, every unpleasant circumstance, every failure, and every physical pain carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that “Old Man Failure” finally becomes tired, and… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another...until you succeed. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share
The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share
A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share
The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share
“To all these I wish to convey the thought that all achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share
Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice,… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share
The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share
