Napoleon Hill Quotes (110 Quotes)


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

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

    One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.


    Through some strange and powerful principle of 'mental chemistry' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, 'that something' which recognizes no such word as 'impossible,' and accepts no such reality as failure.


    The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty

    All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood if they are not, they are not great truths.

    Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit.


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

    All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

    The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

    Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

    Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

    The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

    Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

    The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

    Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

    Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.

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

    All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

    It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

    Do it now can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.


    No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

    The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

    The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

    More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

    What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

    Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

    The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

    No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

    Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.

    Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

    The super-salesman neither permits his subconscious mind to 'broadcast' negative thoughts nor give expression to them through words, for the reason that he understands that 'like attracts like' and negative suggestions attract negative action and negative decisions from prospective buyers.

    The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

    We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.


    If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

    Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

    Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

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

    Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

    A positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude.

    There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.


    The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

    Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

    Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

    Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.


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