Napoleon Hill Quotes & Sayings

Lack of harmony and cooperation between the railroad management and the workers has made it necessary for the railroads to increase their freight and passenger rates, and this, in turn, has increased the cost of life's necessities to almost unbearable proportions. Here, again, lack of cooperation between a few leads to hardship for millions of people. — Napoleon Hill

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness. — Napoleon Hill

5. Lack of self-discipline. Discipline comes through self-control. This means that one must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror. — Napoleon Hill

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair. — 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

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes - NAPOLEON HILL — Napoleon Hill

Don't ever admit that the world has not given you an opportunity — Napoleon Hill

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill

Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent. — Napoleon Hill

He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it. — Napoleon Hill

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude. — Napoleon Hill

Knowledge is only potential power. — Napoleon Hill

Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time. — Napoleon Hill

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage. — Napoleon Hill

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment. — Napoleon Hill

The successful leader must be willing
to assume responsibility for the mistakes
and the shortcomings of his followers. — Napoleon Hill

THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity. — Napoleon Hill

Resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve; not crude determinations; not errant — Napoleon Hill

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection. — Napoleon Hill

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill

An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed. — Napoleon Hill

Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit. — Napoleon Hill

You give before you get. — Napoleon Hill

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony. — Napoleon Hill

Enthusiasm is a state of mind that inspires and arouses one to put ACTION into the task at hand. It is the most contagious of all emotions and transmits the impetus toward agreement and action to all within reach of your words. — 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

Because I know that my character is developed from my own acts and thoughts, I will guard with care all that goes into its development. — Napoleon Hill

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. — Napoleon Hill

Action is the real measure of intelligence. — Napoleon Hill

I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of success, and discovered that each of them had received guidance from unknown sources, although many of them were reluctant to admit this discovery. — Napoleon Hill

General or specialized knowledge. An educated man — Napoleon Hill

Every brain is both a broadcasting station and a receiving station for the vibrations of thought. — Napoleon Hill

The man who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the man who develops into leadership most rapidly. An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader. The — Napoleon Hill

Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy. — Napoleon Hill

If you really are smarter than others, show them with your actions. — Napoleon Hill

When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune. — Napoleon Hill

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. — Napoleon Hill

All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind. — Napoleon Hill

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought. — Napoleon Hill

Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex. — Napoleon Hill

those whom you praise will see in you the qualities that you see in them. Your success in the application of this formula will be in exact proportion to your faith in its soundness. — Napoleon Hill

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. — Napoleon Hill

You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other. — Napoleon Hill

The author discovered, through personally analyzing hundreds of successful men, that all of them followed the habit of exchanging ideas, through what is commonly called conferences. When they had problems to be solved they sat down together and talked freely until they discovered, from their joint contribution of ideas, a plan that would serve their purpose. — Napoleon Hill

If life hands you a lemon, don't complain, but instead make lemonade to sell those who are thirsty from complaining. — Napoleon Hill

Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most! — Napoleon Hill

Finally, he lifted his head slowly, got up and walked to the door. Then he turned around, came back, laid his hand on my shoulder and said, 'My boy, you will need much courage if you remain steadfast in carrying out your purpose in life. But remember, when difficulties overtake you, the common people have common sense. Adversity will develop it. — Napoleon Hill

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. — Napoleon Hill

Have faith in yourself; faith in the infinite — Napoleon Hill

DESIRE - knowing what you want. — Napoleon Hill

When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway. — Napoleon Hill

Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are. — Napoleon Hill

Sound character is our greatest asset because it provides the power with which we may ride the emergencies of life instead of going down under them. — Napoleon Hill

Here is a most significant fact-the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before they are interpreted by the subconscious mind. — Napoleon Hill

The greatest among ye shall be the servant of all — Napoleon Hill

But this argument is found to be defective when examined in its effects and consequences. — Napoleon Hill

Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now. — Napoleon Hill

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

[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later. — Napoleon Hill

Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known. — Napoleon Hill

What you think, so you will become. — Napoleon Hill

It isn't defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you. — Napoleon Hill

What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve — Napoleon Hill

From Christ on down to Edison, the men who have achieved most have been those who met with the most stubborn forms of temporary defeat. This would seem to justify the conclusion that Infinite Intelligence has a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the opportunity to render useful service in a noteworthy fashion. — Napoleon Hill

Fear of poverty is a state of mind, nothing else! But it is sufficient to destroy one's chances of achievement in any undertaking, a truth which became painfully evident during the depression. — Napoleon Hill

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune. — Napoleon Hill

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success. — Napoleon Hill

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

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others. — Napoleon Hill

There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit — Napoleon Hill

Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean. — Napoleon Hill

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act for yourself. — Napoleon Hill

That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hopes and plans. — Napoleon Hill

Money, without brains, always is dangerous. Properly used, it is the most important essential of civilization. The simple breakfast here described could not have been delivered to the New York family at a dime each, or at any other price, if organized capital had not provided the machinery, the ships, the railroads, and the huge armies of trained men to operate them. Some — Napoleon Hill

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. — Napoleon Hill

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort. — Napoleon Hill

Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure. — 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

There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass. — Napoleon Hill

You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power. — Napoleon Hill

The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help. — Napoleon Hill

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. — Napoleon Hill

Faith is the only known antidote for failure! — Napoleon Hill

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. — Napoleon Hill

Money is attracted to him whose mind has been deliberately prepared to attract it, — Napoleon Hill

It is the personalities back of a business which determine the measure of success the business will enjoy. Modify those personalities so they are more pleasing and more attractive to the patrons of the business and the business will thrive. In any of the great cities of the United States one may purchase merchandise of similar nature and price in scores of stores, yet you will find there is always one outstanding store which does more business than any of the others, and the reason for this is that back of that store is a man, or men, who has attended to the personalities of those who come in contact with the public. People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise. Life — Napoleon Hill

You probably know that you are not the only man who has had to sacrifice immediate monetary remuneration for the sake of gathering knowledge, for in truth your experience has been that of every philosopher from the time of Socrates down to the present. — Napoleon Hill

If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. — Napoleon Hill

we must magnetize our minds with intense desire for riches, that we must become "money conscious until the desire for money drives us to create definite plans for acquiring it. But, — Napoleon Hill

If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth. — Napoleon Hill

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people. — Napoleon Hill

If your environment is not to your liking, change it! — Napoleon Hill

Then a genius has been born! — Napoleon Hill

Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind. — Napoleon Hill

Remember that the moment you reduce the statement of your desire, and a plan for its realization, to writing, you have actually taken the first of a series of steps, which will enable you to convert the thought into its physical counterpart. — Napoleon Hill

You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad. — Napoleon Hill

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim. — Napoleon Hill

Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror. — Napoleon Hill

The worst of all human ailments: indecision. — Napoleon Hill

Change your mental attitude, & the World around you will change accordingly — Napoleon Hill