Outwitting the Devil Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Nature will not tolerate idleness or vacuums of any sort. All space must be and is filled with something . . . When the individual does not use the brain for the expression of positive, creative thoughts, nature fills the vacuum by forcing the brain to act upon negative thoughts.”
― Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success

“FEAR is the tool of a man-made devil.”
― 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

“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

“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

“You may not be able to control other people . . . but you can control how you react to them and their actions. This is an easy thing to say but much more difficult to do.”
― 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

“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

“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

“Be definite in everything you do and never leave unfinished thoughts in the mind. Form the habit of reaching definite decisions on all subjects.”
― Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil®: The Secret to Freedom and Success

“Failure is a blessing when it forces one to depend less upon material forces and more upon spiritual forces.”
― 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

“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

“every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.”
― Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil®: The Secret to Freedom and Success

“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.”
― Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil®: The Secret to Freedom and Success

“Despite the fact that I had learned from Andrew Carnegie and more than five hundred others of equal business and professional achievements that noteworthy achievements in all walks of life come through the application of the Master Mind (the harmonious coordination of two or more minds working to a definite end), I had failed to make such an alliance for the purpose of carrying out my plan to take the philosophy of individual achievement to the world. Despite the fact I had understood the power of the Master Mind, I had neglected to appropriate and use this power. I had been laboring as a “lone wolf” instead of allying myself with other and superior minds.”
― 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

“Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.”
― 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

“The “capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged” is “the chief asset of every man who attains outstanding success in any calling.”
― Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil®: The Secret to Freedom and Success

“Do not confuse the word “belief” with the word “wish.” The two are not the same. Everyone is capable of “wishing” for financial, material, or spiritual advantages, but the element of faith is the only sure power by which a wish may be translated into a belief, and a belief into reality.”
― Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil®: The Secret to Freedom and Success

“whatever you have, you use it or you lose it!”
― Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil®: The Secret to Freedom and Success

“Sería muy útil que todo aquel que lea este libro haga un inventario de sus bienes intangibles. Un inventario así podría revelar algunas posesiones invaluables.”
― Napoleon Hill, Burlar al diablo. Secretos desde la cripta

“Por um breve momento, estava feliz pelo privilégio de passar por longos meses de tormento, já que a experiência me ofereceu a oportunidade de testar a eficácia dos princípios de sucesso, os quais eu vinha pesquisando de forma inexorável.”
― Napoleon Hill, Mais Esperto que o Diabo: O mistério revelado da liberdade e do sucesso