Napoleon Hill Giving Quotations

Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.

Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.

If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.

The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.

The super-salesman neither permits his subconscious mind to "broadcast" negative thoughts nor give expression to them through words, for the reason that he understands that "like attracts like" and negative suggestions attract negative action and negative decisions from prospective buyers.

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.

Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.

You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.

First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.

Those who can't take directions graciously have no business giving them

Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.

The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.

Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all "miracles" and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure!

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.

You give before you get.

If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work

Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.

No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.