Napoleon Hill Quotes

The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.

The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.

In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning.

Every day can be a platform to get you closer to your mountaintop. And yet, too many people live life by accident.

Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

I've got, like, too many things that I'd like to try and do, so I'm trying to figure out where the natural pull is strongest.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

I did find my direction at an early age.

I tell you this: Your Life proceeds out of your intentions for it.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

A goal is the basic unit of life design.

Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.

Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.

The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

Everything changes when you make a decision to be one of the courageous ones, someone who chooses to make a life, rather than a living.