Napoleon Hill Quotes

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.

Intentions count in your actions.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

I was just a start-and-stop guy. I could never really follow through on anything that I started.

I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!

New Year's resolutions generally don't work for me. Or I don't work for them. I make them, like everyone else, but I can't think of one I have stuck to for more than 24 hours.

The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline.

Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.

Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

People who won’t take step number one never take step number two.

Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.

You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you're doing?' 'Yes.' 'Then be aware, or you're going to lose it.'

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?