Napoleon Hill Quotes

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

~ Napoleon Hill

A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits.

~ Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

~ Napoleon Hill

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

~ Napoleon Hill

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

~ Napoleon Hill

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

~ Napoleon Hill

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

~ Napoleon Hill

One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.

~ Napoleon Hill

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

~ Napoleon Hill

The mind has a definite way of clothing one's thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents. Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty. Think in terms of opulence and you will attract opulence. Through the eternal law of harmonious attraction, one's thoughts always clothe themselves in material things appropriate unto their nature.

~ Napoleon Hill

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

~ Napoleon Hill

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

Goals are dreams with a deadline.

~ Napoleon Hill

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

~ Napoleon Hill

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought

~ Napoleon Hill

You become what you think about

~ Napoleon Hill

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

~ Napoleon Hill

There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.

~ Napoleon Hill

Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

~ Napoleon Hill

You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.

~ Napoleon Hill

I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.

~ Napoleon Hill

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

~ Napoleon Hill

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

~ Napoleon Hill

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

~ Napoleon Hill

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

~ Napoleon Hill

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action.

~ Napoleon Hill

To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.

~ Napoleon Hill

Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.

~ Napoleon Hill

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

~ Napoleon Hill

There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.

~ Napoleon Hill

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

~ Napoleon Hill

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

~ Napoleon Hill

The desire for sexual expression is inborn and natural. The desire cannot, and should not be submerged or eliminated. But it should be given an outlet through forms of expression which enrich the body, mind, and spirit of man.

~ Napoleon Hill

Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.

~ Napoleon Hill

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

~ Napoleon Hill

Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence staked their lives on the decision to affix their signatures to that document.

~ Napoleon Hill

The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind.

~ Napoleon Hill

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

~ Napoleon Hill

Meet struggle and master it, says nature, and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all your needs.

~ Napoleon Hill

Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!

~ Napoleon Hill