Napoleon Hill Quotes

Face the facts squarely. Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies.

~ Napoleon Hill

Desire is the starting point of all achievement.

~ Napoleon Hill

Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.

~ Napoleon Hill

A philosophy a system of principles that will guide your thoughts and actions.

~ Napoleon Hill

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

~ Napoleon Hill

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

~ Napoleon Hill

IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.

~ Napoleon Hill

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.

~ Napoleon Hill

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

~ Napoleon Hill

If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.

~ Napoleon Hill

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by opinions when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

~ Napoleon Hill

Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious experiences, and all sensations which reach the brain through the five physical senses.

~ Napoleon Hill

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

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

~ Napoleon Hill

Thoughts which are mixed with any of the feelings of emotions, constitute a magnetic force which attracts other similar, or related thoughts.

~ Napoleon Hill

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can’t.

~ Napoleon Hill

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

~ Napoleon Hill

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

~ Napoleon Hill

Riches begin in the form of thought! The amount is limited only by the person in whose mind the thought is put into motion. Faith removes limitations!

~ Napoleon Hill

You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, unless you can work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it.

~ Napoleon Hill

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

~ Napoleon Hill

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love. Napoleon Hill

~ Napoleon Hill

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

~ Napoleon Hill

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

~ Napoleon Hill

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.

~ Napoleon Hill

Whatever your mind can conceive and can believe, it can achieve

~ Napoleon Hill

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

~ Napoleon Hill

the starting point of all achievement is desire

~ Napoleon Hill

Most people go through life by the line of least resistance in every circumstance where they can make a choice. They do not recognize that following the lines of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked!

~ Napoleon Hill

Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.

~ Napoleon Hill

To be successful, you must find peace of mind, acquire the material needs of life, and above all, attain happiness. All of these evidences of success begin in the form of thought impulses.

~ Napoleon Hill

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

~ Napoleon Hill

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

~ Napoleon Hill

During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.

~ Napoleon Hill

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

~ Napoleon Hill

An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.

~ Napoleon Hill

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

~ Napoleon Hill

We rise to high positions or remain at the bottom because of conditions we can control if we desire to control them.

~ Napoleon Hill

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.AndA man whose mind is filled with fear not only destroys his own chances of intelligent action, but he transmits these destructive vibrations to the minds of all who come in contact with him, and destroys, also, their chances.

~ Napoleon Hill

The Creator never singles out an individual for an important service to mankind without first testing him, through struggle, in proportion to the nature of the service he is to render.

~ Napoleon Hill