Napoleon Hill's Quotes & Sayings

Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves". — Napoleon Hill

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

Only those who become "money conscious" ever accumulate great riches. "Money consciousness" means that the mind has become so thoroughly saturated with the DESIRE for money, that one can see one's self already in possession of it. — Napoleon Hill

the work and achievements of hundreds of men of outstanding accomplishment, that there was the influence of a woman's love behind nearly every one of them. — Napoleon Hill

It's a sure thing that you will not finish if you don't start. The most difficult part of any job is getting started. — Napoleon Hill

Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money, wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches. — Napoleon Hill

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown. — Napoleon Hill

If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility. — Napoleon Hill

We refuse to believe that which we don't understand. — Napoleon Hill

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. — Napoleon Hill

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This idea of starting at the bottom and working one's way up may appear to be sound, but the major objection to it is this - too many of those who begin at the bottom never manage to lift their heads high enough to be seen by opportunity, so they remain at the bottom. It should be remembered, also, that the outlook from the bottom is not so very bright or encouraging. It has a tendency to kill off ambition. We call it "getting into a rut," which means that we accept our fate because we form the habit of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we cease to try to throw it off. And that is another reason why it pays to start one or two steps above the bottom. By so doing one forms the habit of looking around, of observing how others get ahead, of seeing opportunity, and of embracing it without hesitation. — Napoleon Hill

One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which they like best. Everyone should find his or her particular niche in the world's work, where both material prosperity and happiness in abundance may be found. — Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill said The Imagination is the most powerful most miraculous inconceivably powerful force that the world's ever known — Bob Proctor

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

Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail! — Napoleon Hill

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies . — Napoleon Hill

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word "impossible." He knows all the rules which will NOT work. He knows all the things which CANNOT be done. — Napoleon Hill

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. — Napoleon Hill

Life is strange, and often imponderable! — Napoleon Hill

business men accumulate great fortunes, by giving before they try to get. — Napoleon Hill

A long while ago, a great warrior faced a situation which made it necessary for him to make a decision which insured his success on the battlefield. He was about to send his armies against a powerful foe, whose men outnumbered his own. He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy's country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them. Addressing his men before the first battle, he said, You see the boats going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win! We now have no choice - we win, or we perish! They won. — Napoleon Hill

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

A person's acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind. — Napoleon Hill

Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself. — Napoleon Hill

No one's ready for a thing, until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish. — Napoleon Hill

You know, it's not more knowledge, it's not more education, it's not more facts that we need. It's a better use of what we already have that we need to have. You have each and every one of you, within your potential power right now to do a wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it. — Napoleon Hill

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven; the fated sky Gives us free scope; and only backward pulls Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. How much I could do if I only tried. * (1803-1873) English dramatist, novelist, and politician. — Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure. — Napoleon Hill

When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door. — Napoleon Hill

One of Henry Ford's most outstanding qualities is his habit of reaching decisions quickly and definitely, and changing them slowly. — Napoleon Hill

When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you. — Napoleon Hill

If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you. — Napoleon Hill

Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint. — Napoleon Hill

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. — 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

Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction. — Napoleon Hill

Love is, without question life's greatest experience. — Napoleon Hill

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order. — Napoleon Hill

He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy's country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them. Addressing his men before the first battle, he said, "You see the boats going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win! We now have no choice - we win, or we perish! They won. Every — Napoleon Hill

Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith. — Napoleon Hill

As Napoleon Hill said, necessity may be the mother of invention but it is also the father of crime. — S. Hussain Zaidi

Success begins with a fellow's will - It's all in the state of mind. — Napoleon Hill

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

Our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts which we hold in our minds, and, by means with which no man is familiar, these 'magnets' attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts." - NAPOLEON HILL, — Dan S. Kennedy

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control. — Napoleon Hill

We all have negative thoughts. They are impossible to avoid. But ongoing negative thoughts...That's a choice. — Tom Cunningham

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service. — Napoleon Hill

Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people. — 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

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

If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day's work you have done today? — Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. — Robin S. Sharma

He presented himself at Mr Edison's — Napoleon Hill

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds! — 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

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

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use. — Napoleon Hill

Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery ... a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery. — Napoleon Hill

Successful men become successful only because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. — Napoleon Hill

It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start. — Napoleon Hill

Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences. — Napoleon Hill

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison. — Napoleon Hill

The climb upward will be easier if you take others along with you. — Napoleon Hill

A man's alibi is the child of his own imagination. It is human nature to defend one's own brain-child. — Napoleon Hill

You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts. — Napoleon Hill

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. — Napoleon Hill

Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success. — Napoleon Hill

You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative. — Napoleon Hill

Instead of complaining about what you don't like about your job, start commending what you do like and see how quickly it improves. — 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 most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion. — Napoleon Hill

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

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly. — Napoleon Hill

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else. — Napoleon Hill

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

THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart. — Napoleon Hill

In parting, I would remind you that Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions! — 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

Behind every adversity - is an opportunity! — Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all individual achievement is the adoption of a definite major purpose and a specific plan for its attainment. 22. — 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

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else. — Napoleon Hill

Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions. — Napoleon Hill

One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success. — 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

Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise. — Napoleon Hill

Notice. It may interest you to know that Marconi's "friends" had him taken into custody, and examined in a psychopathic hospital, when he announced he had discovered a principle through which he could send messages through the air, without the aid of wires, or other direct physical means of communication. The dreamers of today fare better. The world has become accustomed to new discoveries. Nay, it has shown a willingness to reward the dreamer who gives the world a new idea. "The — Napoleon Hill

Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner. — Napoleon Hill

Man's greatest motivating force is his desire to please woman! The hunter who excelled during prehistoric days, before the dawn of civilization, did so, because of his desire to appear great in the eyes of woman. Man's nature has not changed in this respect. The "hunter" of today brings home no skins of wild animals, but he indicates his desire for her favor by supplying fine clothes, motor cars, and wealth. Man has the same desire to please woman that he had before the dawn of civilization. The only thing that has changed, is his method of pleasing. Men who accumulate large fortunes, and attain to great heights of power and fame, do so, mainly, to satisfy their desire to please women. — Napoleon Hill

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil. Self-confident faith in one's self is both the man-made weapon which defeats this devil and the man-made tool which builds a triumphant life. And it is more than that. It is a link to the irresistible forces of the universe which stand behind a man who does not believe in failure and defeat as being anything but temporary experiences. — 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

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation. — Napoleon Hill

It may interest you to know that Marconi's "friends" had him taken into custody, and examined in a psychopathic hospital, when he announced he had discovered a principle through which he could send messages through the air, without the aid of wires, or other direct physical means of communication. The dreamers of today fare better. — Napoleon Hill

The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something. — Napoleon Hill

thoughts which go out from one's mind, also imbed themselves deeply in one's subconscious mind, where they serve as a magnet, pattern, or blueprint by which the subconscious mind is influenced while translating them into their physical equivalent. — Napoleon Hill

MAN'S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION. — Napoleon Hill

Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts. — Napoleon Hill

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him. — Napoleon Hill

If you don't believe in yourself, how can you ask others to do so? — Napoleon Hill