Napoleon Hill Quotes

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Every aspect of our lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious, which remains hidden from us.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none.

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is our conscious reasoning-the stream of words and images of which we are fully aware. The elephant is the other 99 percent of mental processes-the ones that occur outside of awareness but that actually govern most of our behavior.

An affirmation is almost like a mantra. It does not really matter if what you are affirming is not totally true as yet. By repeating an affirmation over and over again, it becomes embedded in the subconscious mind, and eventually it becomes your reality.

O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.

Your mind is a tool you can choose to use any way you wish.

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.

If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

Conquer your mind and conquer the world.

...realize in your daily life that 'matter' is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons subject entirely to the control of Mind; that your environment, your success, your happiness, are all of your own making... All wealth depends upon a clear understanding of the fact that mind- thought - is the only creator. The great business of life is thinking. Control your thoughts and you control circumstance.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Use the power of your conscious & subconscious mind to create a vibrational match for the abundance you desire and deserve.

It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting.

There's a lot of power in putting it out in the universe. It's telling your subconscious mind, 'This is what's gonna happen.'

What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.