How to Own Your Own Mind Quotes

“WHEN you pray, do not ask for more blessings; but ask for more wisdom that you may better understand and enjoy the blessings you already have.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“All physical action, therefore, begins in the form of a thought. To control physical action one has only to control thoughts. The presence of any thought in the mind has a tendency to set up an appropriate physical action in some portion of the body.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“We have already explained why an individual must organise his thought power and concentrate it upon one thing at a time, for this is the way to individual self-mastery upon which personal power is based.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“Would I go through the same fight again, if I had it to do over again? Why, yes, of course, I would! There is a sort of compensation that is experienced by the man who has had a stiff fight but has won the battle – a form of compensation which, I fear, others never know.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“All of man’s achievements begin in the form of thought, organised into plans, aims and purposes, and expressed in terms of action. All”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“If you wish to do something, start right where you stand, and begin doing it – NOW! ‘What,’ you may ask, “shall I use for tools? Where will I get the capital? Who will help me?” And I shall reply that men who accomplish anything worthy of mention always begin before everything they need is in hand. I have never yet been entirely ready for anything I have begun, and I doubt if anyone else ever has been. It is one of the strange phenomena of human experience that the man who begins, where he stands, and does the best he can with whatever means he may have, very soon finds other and better means of accomplishing his objectives. Mysteriously, the tools are placed at his disposal.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“definiteness of purpose, backed with a form of persistence, that assumes the proportion of an obsession, is the greatest of all stimulants of both the synthetic and the creative forms of imagination. The mind of man is provided with a power which forces the subconscious mind to accept and to act upon obsessional desires that are definitely planned.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“Ideas are the beginning of all achievements.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“It is meaningless to pray in the morning and to live like a barbarian the remainder of the day. True prayer is a way of life; the truest life is literally a way of prayer.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“the pioneering spirit and the will for self-determination have been weakened.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“Men with Creative Vision never limit the amount of service they render. On the contrary, they extend their services in every direction possible, by Going the Extra Mile. There is no other way by which a man can make the fullest use of his privilege of personal initiative. To get more from life, one must give more! This is a truism from which no man can escape. Nature fixed it in all natural laws; therefore, it is not a man-made rule.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“The same principle was used by Thomas A. Edison and Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. By fixing their minds on definite objectives, through definiteness of purpose, they put creative imagination to work with far-reaching results.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“The power with which we think is “mental dynamite”, and it can be organised and used constructively for the attainment of definite ends. If it is not organised and used through controlled habits, it may become a “mental explosive” that will literally blast one’s hopes of achievement and lead to inevitable failure. —Andrew”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“THE mind within itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. —John Milton”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“Faith is of the essence of creative ability.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“EDISON had the persistence to keep on trying in the face of ten thousand failures. —Andrew Carnegie”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“A deep, burning desire is picked up by the subconscious and acted upon much more definitely and quickly than an ordinary desire.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“The power with which we think is “mental dynamite”, and it can be organised and used constructively for the attainment of definite ends. If it is not organised and used through controlled habits, it may become a “mental explosive” that will literally blast one’s hopes of achievement and lead to inevitable failure. —Andrew Carnegie”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“Concentration of the many provides the privilege of concentration by individuals. Thus, concentrated power becomes a form of insurance against interference with personal rights and property rights, under the greatest system of human relationship known to the world.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“The best way to induce anyone to do anything is by the provision of a motive sufficient to attract his attention and arouse his desire.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“Splitting one’s attention has the effect of dividing one’s powers.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“Now let us define the term ‘Controlled Attention’, and make sure we understand exactly what it means. It is the act of combining all the faculties of the mind and concentrating them upon the attainment of a definite purpose.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“The determined mind projects an influence that is felt by everyone within its range.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“MAN IS not a creature of circumstances, but a creator of circumstances. He makes his own circumstances, his own opportunities.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“True prayer is a way of life; the truest life is literally a way of prayer.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“Prayer is Power Dr. Alexis Carrel, who devoted thirty-three years to biological research at the Rockefeller Institute, and is the author of Man, the Unknown, analysed prayer as follows: “Prayer is not only worship; it is also an invisible emanation of man’s worshipping spirit – the most powerful form of energy that one can generate. The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigour, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“Prayer: When one prays, if he understands the true meaning of prayer, and prays in a state of mind that has been cleared of all fear and doubt, he does so by setting aside his own faculty of reason, his faculty of will, and all other faculties of the mind except the faculty of the emotions. With the mind under control, he concentrates all his positive emotions, especially the emotion of faith, on the object of his prayer, having such a deep faith in its attainment that he can see himself already in possession of it. Under this sort of Controlled Attention, one makes direct connection with Infinite Intelligence. If the prayer is answered favourably, the answer comes in the form of an inspired idea, plan, or method by which one may, through his own efforts, acquire that for which he prays.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“Let us recognise truth wherever we find it.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“By this time, the student of this philosophy will have acquired the habit of converting every experience of his life into some definite benefit. Defeat will have become nothing but a signal for greater and more determined effort. He will have acquired the habit of searching for the ‘seed of an equivalent benefit’ that is to be found in all forms of defeat.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind

“The emotion of fear and the emotion of faith, for example, are so unfriendly that both cannot possibly occupy the brain at the same time. One or the other must, and it always does, dominate. There are certain means by which an individual may determine which of these two emotions, or any other emotions, shall dominate his brain, and one of the more important of these methods is Controlled Attention.”
― Napoleon Hill, How to Own Your Own Mind