Napoleon Hill Quotes

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Trying is always enough.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.

Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will.'

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Men can do all things if they will.

Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.

There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated.

At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

You hit road blocks in life, but I'm living proof that you can overcome those road blocks and become what you want to become.

I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.