Napoleon Hill Quotes

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

Without patience, there can be no genius

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

Unless you stop trying, how can you not fail anymore?

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I lost three times before I got elected. There's no limit. Stay in pursuit of your dreams.

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If YOU fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle much worse than we realize. It matters HOW you are going to FINISH. Are you going to finish strong?

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

I am gonna try again and again, because the moment I give up, is the moment I fail.

When I look at the kids training today... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.

Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.

Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.