Napoleon Hill Quotes
Browse 79 quotes from Napoleon Hill, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
“It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.”
“There is no such thing as something for nothing.”
“No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.”
“You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; yet you have the key in your own hands the moment you learn to control your thoughts.”
“The mind has no limitations except those which conflict with the laws of nature.”
“There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”
“It is the personalities behind a business which determine the measure of success the business will enjoy.”
“All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.”
“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”
“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”
“When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity regardless of what others may do, you are destined for greatness.”
“Success comes on when you act on what you know and believe.”
“Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do…”
“Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.”
“A mastermind is a mind developed through the harmonious cooperation of two or more people who ally themselves for the purpose of accomplishing any given task.”
“What most people purchase is the pleasing personality of some man or woman who knows the value of cultivating such a personality.”
“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”
“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.”
“Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”
“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”
“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 into contact than they are by the merchandise.”
“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”
“No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.”
“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.”
“Nothing can bring you success but yourself.”
“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
“The most practical way of controlling the mind is to keep it busy with a purpose, backed by a plan.”
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”
“Riches begin in the form of thought.”
“One of the greatest problems of life is learning the art of harmonious negotiation with others.”
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”
“Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.”
“Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.”
“If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.”
“Nothing was ever created that was not first conceived in the imagination, through desire, and transformed into reality through concentration.”
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
“Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.”
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”
“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.”
“Success is the ability to get what you want from life without interfering with another person's ability to get what they want from life.”
“Successful people make decisions quickly and change them slowly. Unsuccessful people make decisions slowly and change them quickly.”
“Render more service than that for which you are paid and you will soon be paid for more than you render.”
“Success in this world is always a matter of individual effort, yet you can only succeed with the cooperation of others.”
“Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don’t want.”
“Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.”
“When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”
“Success is the attainment of your definite chief aim without violating the rights of other people.”
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
“It is always your next move.”
“Focus on what you have, not what you don’t have.”
“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”
“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.”
“Plan your work and work your plan.”
“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
“Let a person radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.”
“Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.”
“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
“Look for the seed of an equivalent benefit in every failure.”
“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”
“Power is organized effort.”
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”
“You give before you get.”
“No man can rise to fame and fortune without carrying others along with him. It simply cannot be done.”
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.”
“Before you can get the cooperation of other people, you must first show a willingness to cooperate with them.”
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”
