Napoleon Hill Thinking Quotations

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

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.

If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

Whatever you think today becomes what you are tomorrow.

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't.

You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.

Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!

Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

You can do it if you believe you can.

What you think, so you will become.

If you are sure you are right, you need not worry what the world thinks.

That which you think today becomes that which you are tomorrow.

I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality, therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.

Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.

If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.

One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.