Napoleon Hill famous quotes

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Inspirational #Motivational #Change

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

#Inspirational #Positive #Success

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

#Love #Inspirational #Family

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Inspirational #Success #Smart

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Inspirational #Perseverance #Determination

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
-- Napoleon Hill

#May #Tools #Found

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

#Real #Age #Way

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

#Positive #Ocean #Men

O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Mind #Desire #Use

You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Success #Believe #Greatness

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Inspirational #Business #Opportunity

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

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Success

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Success #Military #Benefits

The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Inspirational #Reality #Mind

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

#Inspirational #Dream #Encouragement

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

#Believe #Mind #Wish

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Fire #Desire #Heat

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Men #Spirit #Harmony

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Inspirational #Men #World

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Success #Time #Mistake

Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all "miracles" and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure!
-- Napoleon Hill

#Faith #Giving #Miracle

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Hurt #Too Much #May

If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Attitude #Worried #Mental Attitude

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Building #Habit

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Motivational #Attitude #Acceptance

It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Responsibility #Mind #Emotion

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

#Umpires #Judging #Enemy

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Inspirational #Motivational #Perseverance

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

#Inspirational #Life #New Beginnings

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Success #Reality #Defeat

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

#Motivational #Success #Teamwork

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Inspirational #Numbers #People

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.
-- Napoleon Hill

#People #Mind #Force

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Success #People #Purpose

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life
-- Napoleon Hill

#Loyalty #Causes #Walks Of Life

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Money

You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Doors #Hands #Keys

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

#Cheating #Nature #Giving Up

Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Opportunity #Doors #Slipping

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

#Inspirational #Powerful #Commitment

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Inspirational #Dream #Business

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

#Positive Thinking #Ideas #Mind

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Bad Ass #Thinking #Self

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Change

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Inspirational #Positive #Inspiring

First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Loss #Desire #Firsts

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Wisdom #Mind #Done

Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Goal #Trying #Target

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Inspiring #Success #Responsibility

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

#Cooking #Mind #Environmental

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

#Business #Men #Doe

When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Appearance #Ready

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Stay Positive #Conscious

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

#Failure #Men #Mind

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Strength #Success #Yoga

Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Jobs #Opportunity #Careers

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

#Motivational #Successful #People

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

#Inspirational #Causes #Common

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Mind #Negative #Emotion

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!
-- Napoleon Hill

#Habit #Success And Failure #Results

Knowledge is only potential power.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Knowledge

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Success #Dream #Achievement

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
-- Napoleon Hill

#House #Purpose #Planning

You can always become the person you would have liked to be.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Persons

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Adversity #Successful #Opportunity

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

#Attitude #Thinking #Remember

Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Opportunity #Going The Extra Mile #Miles

If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you have already received, instead of requests for what you do not have, you will obtain results a great deal faster.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Gratitude #Prayer #Blessing

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Failure #Trying #Life Is

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

#Jobs #Responsibility #Way

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

#Real #Mistake #Men

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

#Today #Done #Employers

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Greatness #Giving #Trying

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

#Inspirational #Tripping #Delight

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

#Stars #Dreamer #World

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

#Mind #Limitation

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Imagination #Balance #Riches

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Lying #Sleep #Achievement

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

#Mistake #Responsibility #Successful

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.
-- Napoleon Hill

#People #Criticism #Majority

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

#Way #Spirit #Success In Life

A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Mind #Emotion #Abode

ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Tendencies #Impulse

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Men #Average #Weakness

You give before you get.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Giving

A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Blessing #Mind #Closed Mind

The person who works harder when the boss isn’t around is headed straight for a better job.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Jobs #Hard Work #Boss

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Opportunity #Needs #Fit

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

#Success #Effort #Chiefs

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Thinking #People #Desire

When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Talking #Want #Deeds

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Chance #Persons

Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Decision #Want

If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Believe #Mind #Achieve

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Strong #Desire #Tendencies

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
-- Napoleon Hill

#School #Forever #Calling

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.
-- Napoleon Hill

#People #Cooperation #Individual

Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Men #Mind #Permit

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Motivational #Perseverance #Jobs