"Failure always is a blessing when it forces one to acquire knowledge or to build habits that lead to the achievement of one’s major purpose in life."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear. The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you?"
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"Your only limitation is the one which you set up in your own mind."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds. ."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success )
"Failure brings a climax in which one has the privilege of clearing his mind of fear and making a new start in another direction."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"Anyone who submits to annoyance by things he does not want is not definite. He is a drifter."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"The person who moves with definiteness recognizes the difference between temporary defeat and failure. When plans fail he substitutes others but he does not change his purpose. He perseveres."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"Remember that your dominating thoughts attract,
through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most
convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"From what you say, I infer that time is the friend of the person who trains his mind to follow positive thought-habits and the enemy of the person who drifts into negative thought-habits."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"One’s dominating desires can be crystallized into their physical equivalents through definiteness of purpose backed by definiteness of plans with the aid of rhythm and time"
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"Children are sent to school to make credits and to learn how to memorize, not to learn what they want of life."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success )
"The majority of people who acquire wisdom do so after they have passed the age of forty. Prior to that time the majority of people are too busy gathering knowledge and organizing it into plans to spend any effort seeking wisdom."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"Then accumulated knowledge is not wisdom? A Great heavens, no! If knowledge were wisdom, the achievements of science would not have been converted into implements of destruction."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)
"Men and women who come to the closing chapter of life disappointed because they did not attain the goal which they had set their hearts upon achieving, they teach you what not to do."
— Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success)