Napoleon Hill Quotes

You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.

Excuses destroy success every time.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

It is not the critic who counts

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

I've never had anything given to me. I've never had anything easy. My whole career has been that way.

This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard and and perseverance. No excuses.

Losses are inevitable, but excuses are optional.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.