Napoleon Hill Quotes

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up!

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I used to delay doing stuff that I just didn't want to deal with - things like putting the garden hose away properly or doing the dishes right after dinner. Now I have this little voice in my head that says, 'I know you don't want to do this, but just do it anyway.' In other words, there's far less stuff that I put off until tomorrow.

Every day, I tell myself, 'It will be better if I spend more time on thinking about good ideas and working instead of watching TV or shopping.'

Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!

Procrastinating is a habit that I have to overcome.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

Say not: “When I have free time I shall study”, for you may perhaps never have any free time

The way to get ahead is to start now.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

The only time to take the step towards change is now. Even if they're baby steps, start today! Consistency is important because you must make time to work on your goals. Even if there is little you can do, you must!

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

Action will destroy your procrastination.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.