Napoleon Hill Quotes

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Success is a worn down pencil.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.’

You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.

We fail when we give up too soon.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

You just have to keep grinding.

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

He believes that "To persevere is favorable."

Most people in life, give up too early.

Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.

Things worth having don't come easy," Woods said. "You have to fight for it until you're tired of fighting, and then you take a breather and fight some more." He squeezed my shoulder. "Don't give up. You'll regret it.