Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

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

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

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

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Self-discipline 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.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Think and grow rich.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

You give before you get.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.