I just finished reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. This book is surely an old but helpful guide. There are many points worth highlighting in this book. I would like to share all these points with you all. After all, sharing is caring. So here are specially curated 90 quotes for you. Hope they bring a positive change in your life and motivate you to succeed.
- Success comes to those who become SUCCESS CONSCIOUS.
2. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to QUIT. That is exactly what the majority of men do.
3. Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all the sources of retreat.
4. Every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
5. Accumulation of money cannot be left to chance, good fortune, and luck.
6. If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
7. This changed world requires practical dreamers who can and will put their dreams into action.
8. Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they start.
9. To win the big stakes in this changing world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit which serves as the life.
10. Success requires no apologies, Failure permits no alibis.
11. Every Failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
12. Practical dreamers DO NOT QUIT!
13. The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their “other-selves”.
14. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
15. Our only limitations are those we set up in our minds.
16. DESIRE with enduring FAITH.
17. Perfection will come through practice.
18. It is a well-known fact that one comes, finally, to BELIEVE whatever one repeats to one’s self whether the statement be true or false.
19. Both Poverty and Riches are the offspring of thought.
20. Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
21. Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.
22. The way to success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
23. My belief in the theory that business associations are vital factors, both in failure and in success.
24. IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.
25. No intelligent person will either request or expect another to work without adequate compensation, although this may not be in the form of money.
26. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more towards your coveted goal.
27. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a “quitter”.
28. QUALITY, plus QUANTITY, plus the proper SPIRIT of cooperation, equals perfect salesmanship of service.
29. IT DOES NOT, AND CANNOT BRING RICHES WITHOUT EFFORT!
30. You have a brain and mind of your own. USE IT, and reach your own decisions.
31. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and your mouth CLOSED if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt DECISION.
32. Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.
33. Keep in mind the fact that every person with whom you associate is, like yourself, seeking the opportunity to accumulate money.
34. TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.
35. It does not, and cannot bring Riches without Efforts!
36. Deeds, and not words, are what count most.
37. PERSISTENCE is an essential factor in the procedure of transmuting DESIRE into its monetary equivalent.
38. The basis of persistence is the POWER OF WILL.
39. Experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men.
40. Weak desires bring weak results.
41. EVERY FAILURE BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT ADVANTAGE.
42. POWER may be defined as “organized” and intelligently directed KNOWLEDGE.”
43. Men take on the nature and the habits and the POWER OF THOUGHT of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
44. Read, THINK, and meditate as you read.
45. Understanding of the sixth sense comes only by meditation through mind development from within.
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46. Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.
47. The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
48. You are the master of your destiny.
49. You can influence, direct, and control your own environment.
50. Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money, wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
51. You can make your life what you want it to be.
52. The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their “other selves”.
53. 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.
54. Capability means IMAGINATION, the one quality needed to combine specialized knowledge with IDEAS, in the form of ORGANIZED PLANS designed to yield riches.
55. Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.
56. Without imagination, the leader is incapable of meeting emergencies, and of creating plans by which to guide his followers efficiently.
57. Money, without brains, always is dangerous.
58. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning.
59. Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure.
60. One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man’s familiarity with the word “impossible”.
61. We foolishly believe that our own limitations are the proper measure of limitations.
62. If you truly DESIRE money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it.
63. Only those who become “money conscious” ever accumulate great riches.
64. One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes, first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, DESIRING, and PLANNING before they acquired money.
65. You can never have riches in great quantities, UNLESS you can work yourself into a white heat of DESIRE for money, and actually BELIEVE you will possess it.
66. Tolerance and an open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today.
67. If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it!
68. Put your dream across, and never mind what “they” say if you meet with temporary defeat.
69. A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off.
70. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
71. All who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they “arrive”.
72. There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it.
73. Riches begin in the form of THOUGHT!
74. An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.
75. Specialized knowledge, plus imagination, were the ingredients that went into this unique and successful business.
76. The great leaders of business, industry, finance and the great artists, musicians, poets, and writers became great, because they developed the faculty of creative imagination.
77. Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
78. No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability, and knowledge to insure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.
79. Ideas are products of the imagination.
80. Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them.
81. The most intelligent man living cannot succeed in accumulating money – nor in any other undertaking – without plans which are practical and workable.
82. A QUITTER NEVER WINS – AND – A WINNER NEVER QUITS.
83. In union there is strength!
84. DEFINITENESS OF DECISION always requires courage, sometimes very great courage.
85. Will-power and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.
86. The ease with which lack of persistence may be conquered will depend entirely upon the INTENSITY OF ONE’S DESIRE.
87. INDECISION is a seedling of FEAR!
88. Indecision crystalizes into DOUBT, the two blend and become FEAR!
89. The fear of criticism takes on many forms, the majority of which are petty and trivial.
90. The fear of criticism robs man of his initiative, destroys his power of imagination, limits his individuality, takes away his self-reliance, and does him damage in a hundred other ways.
Hope these quotes bring a positive change in your life and motivate you to succeed.
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Wow, great article.Really looking forward to read more. Really Great.