Singleness of Purpose

"Singleness of purpose is essential for success, no matter what may be one's idea of the definition of success. Yet singleness of purpose is a quality which may and generally does call for thought on many allied subjects."

-- Napoleon Hill


"To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt


"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."

-- Andrew Carnegie

Take Action To Get It

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

-- Jack Canfield
Author, Chicken Soup for the Soul


"There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man."

-- Sean Connery


"What is now proved was once only imagined."

-- William Blake


"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."

-- Elvis Presley

Destiny Decisions

"The three decisions that control your destiny are:
1) Your decisions about What to focus on.
2) Your decisions about What things mean to you.
3) Your decisions about What do do to create the results you desire."

-- Anthony Robbins


"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."

-- Steven Covey


"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."

-- Charles Lindbergh


"It is only when people shake off the baggage of financial misinformation they have acquired from their parents, teachers, friends and past financial disasters that they are able to advance themselves financially."

-- Todd Dean

Nothing Just Happens

"Nothing ever just Happens. Everything from the lowest animal form that creeps on the earth or swims in the seas, on up to a man is the Effect of Nature's evolutionary process. Evolution is Orderly Change. No Miracle are connected with this orderly change."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity."

-- Arthur Wang


"When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but, rather, how to get to their own truth."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

True Decisions

"Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can."

-- Arthur Wang


"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you."

-- Winnie the Pooh


"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

-- Michelangelo Buonarroti

Have A Bigger Yes Burning

"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say no to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger yes burning inside."

-- Stephen Covey


"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

-- Ovid


"Begin by studying men who have accumulated great wealth and find out the Cause of their achievements."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Whatever we think about and thank about, we bring about."

-- Wayne Dyer

Accept Failure

"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try
- you don't take the risk."

-- Rosalynn Carter


"The man who can intelligently use the knowledge possessed by another is as much or more a man of education as the person who merely has the knowledge but does not know what to do with it."

-- Napoleon Hill


"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."

-- Marcel Pagnol

Make The Decision Now

"Make the decision now that can send you in a new, positive and powerful direction for growth and happiness. Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent and committed decision."

-- Anthony Robbins


"The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become."

-- Brian Tracy


"The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself."

-- Wallace Wattles


"The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy and the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most."

-- Robert Kiyosaki

Getting Improvement

"Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes."

-- Frieda Norris


"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

-- Winston Churchill


"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

-- Bill Cosby

Organized Knowledge

"Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it."

-- Julia Child


"Pursue meaningful adventures."

-- Chris Guillebeau

Never Fall Before

"If you never fall you won't know how to pick yourself up."

-- Arthur Wang


"To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it."

-- Josh Jenkins


"You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose."

-- Rhonda Byrne


"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."

-- Warren Buffett

Define Ourselves

"None of us is defined by our circumstances, nor are we defined by how other people perceive us. It is up to each one of us to define ourselves, and that is a life's work. Each of us has the ability to lead a dynamic life by pursuing our unique goals and dreams. There are no limits to what you can do."

-- Stedman Graham



"The people's good is the highest law."

-- Cicero


"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do.
Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."

-- Alex Haley

Secrets of Energy

"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men."

-- Captain J. A. Hadfield


"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

-- Charles R. Swindoll


"A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it. A genuine dream is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential."

-- John Maxwell

Grow Through Life

"Don't go through life, grow through life."

-- Eric Butterworth


"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."

-- Baltasar Gracian


"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."

-- James M. Barrie


"A man is half whipped the minute he begins to feel sorry for himself, or to spin an alibi with which he would explain away his defects."

-- Napoleon Hill

Don't Assign Limits

"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee


"You're never too old to become younger."

-- Mae West


"Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head."

-- Ann Landers


"Never in the history of the world has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect."

-- Napoleon Hill

Obstacle or Opportunity

"What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity."

-- J. Sidlow Baxter
1903-1999, Author and Theologian


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

-- Napoleon Hill


"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."

-- Lionel Hampton


"There is but one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way."

-- Christopher Morley

Think for a Moment

"Think for a moment. Is there a difference between being interested in something and being committed to it? You bet there is. Many times people say things like, 'Gosh, I really would like to make more money' or 'I'd like to be closer to my kids' or 'You know, I'd really like to make a difference in the world'. But that kind of statement is not a commitment at all. It's merely stating a preference, saying, I'm interested in having this happen, if I don't have to do anything. That's not power! It's a weak prayer made without even the faith to launch it."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

-- Oscar Wilde


"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

-- John Wooden

Own Mistakes

"You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses."

-- Napoleon Hill


"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."

-- Aristotle


"The cause of the confusion prevailing in your mind that weakens your thoughts is the false belief that there is a power or powers outside you greater than the power within you."

-- John McDonald

Our Mind

"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself."

-- Louis L'Amour
1908-1988, Novelist


"In Unlimited Power, I made it abundantly clear that the most powerful way to shape our lives is to get ourselves to take action."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success."

-- Martha Stewart

Today Is Your Day

"You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today's the day. Say it; This is going to be my day."

-- Brendon Burchard


"A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?"

-- Wes Craven


"There are no facts, only interpretations."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Control Is In You

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."

-- Barbara de Angelis


"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."

-- Peter T. Mcintyre


"Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works."

-- Napoleon Hill

Next Ten Years

"More importantly, maybe we should be asking ourselves, How am I going to live the next ten years of my life? How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? What am I going to stand for from now on? What's important to me right now and what will be important to me in the long run? What actions can I take today that will shape my ultimate destiny? You see, ten years from now you will surely arrive. The question is: Where?"

-- Anthony Robbins


"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

--Lao Tzu

Raise Your Standard

"Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to becoming."

-- Anthony Robbins

Question To Improve Life

"My own magnificent obsession began with some simple questions: How can I take immediate control of my life? What can I do today that can make a difference, that could help me and others to shape our destinies? How can I expand, learn, grow and share that knowledge with others in a meaningful and enjoyable way?"

-- Anthony Robbins

Controlled Focus

"Most people have no ideas of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. Controlled focus is like a laser beam that can cut through anything that seems to be stopping you."

-- Anthony Robbins

Aim In Life

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson


"Until we become humble in our own hearts we are not apt to profit greatly by the experiences and thoughts of others."

"Humility is a forerunner of success."

-- Napoleon Hill

Single Purpose

"Singleness of purpose is essential for success, no matter what may be one's idea of the definition of success."

-- Napoleon Hill


"The best rose bush, after all is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses."

-- Henry Van Dyke

Enduring Power

"Enduring power never grows out of Fear. Any power that is built upon Fear is bound to crumble and disintegrate. Understand this great truth and you will never be so unfortunate as to try to raise yourself to power through the Fears of other people who may owe you temporary allegiance."

-- Napoleon Hill

Weakness in Attitude

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

-- Albert Einstein


"You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted."

-- Kevin Costner


"Nothing ever just happens. Everything from the lowest animal form that creeps on the earth or swims in the seas, on up to main is the Effect of Nature's evolutionary process."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

-- Marcus Aurelius
121-180, Roman Emperor and Philosopher

Nothing You Cannot Achieve

"To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve."

-- Kevin Spacey


"Begin by studying men who have accumulated great wealth and find out the cause of their achievement."

-- Napoleon Hill


"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not."

-- Arthur Wang


"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first
be overcome."

-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author

Earth Ability

"Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can."

-- Gracie Allen


"A winner never quits and a quitter never winds."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped."

-- African proverb


"Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed."

-- Booker T. Washington