Napoleon Hill was an American author and success coach, best known for his book Think and Grow Rich. He wrote several books on success and personal achievement, and his works have sold millions of copies worldwide. He was the founder of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, which promotes his philosophies and ideas about success. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Napoleon Hill on success, mastermind, love.
Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!
Napoleon Hill Quotes About Success
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
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. — Napoleon Hill
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. — Napoleon Hill
Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover. — Napoleon Hill
A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. — Napoleon Hill
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. — Napoleon Hill
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
To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do. — Napoleon Hill
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. — Napoleon Hill
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. — Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill Quotes About Love
Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it. — Napoleon Hill
You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little. — Napoleon Hill
Believe in poverty and you will be poor.
Believe in wealth and you will be rich.
Believe in love and you will have love.
Believe in health and you will be healthy. — Napoleon Hill
Love is, without question life's greatest experience. — Napoleon Hill
One who has loved truly can never lose entirely. — Napoleon Hill
I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself. — 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
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
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
Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love. — Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill Quotes About Imagination
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance. — Napoleon Hill
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. — Napoleon Hill
Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you — Napoleon Hill
If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination. — Napoleon Hill
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. — Napoleon Hill
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. — Napoleon Hill
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
The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination. — Napoleon Hill
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. — Napoleon Hill
No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them. — Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill Quotes About Goals
A goal is a dream with a deadline. — Napoleon Hill
Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. — Napoleon Hill
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
Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. — Napoleon Hill
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. — Napoleon Hill
Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have. — Napoleon Hill
Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals. — Napoleon Hill
Dreams are the seedlings of reality. — Napoleon Hill
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis. — 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
Napoleon Hill Quotes About Faith
Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH. — Napoleon Hill
Do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These laws are available to every person who has the faith and the courage to use them. — Napoleon Hill
Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief — Napoleon Hill
The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief. — Napoleon Hill
FAITH is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer. — Napoleon Hill
FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man. — Napoleon Hill
Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist. — Napoleon Hill
Fear is faith in reverse gear. — 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
FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE! — Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill Quotes About Purpose
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. — Napoleon Hill
Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement. — Napoleon Hill
You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form. — Napoleon Hill
I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action. — Napoleon Hill
Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success. — Napoleon Hill
When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work. — Napoleon Hill
Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness. — Napoleon Hill
The Master Mind principle: Two or more people actively engaged in the pursuit of a definite purpose with a positive mental attitude, constitute an unbeatable force. — Napoleon Hill
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
When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony, and work toward a definite objective, they place themselves in position, through that alliance, to absorb power directly from the great universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence. — Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill Quotes About Desire
The starting point of all achievement is desire. — Napoleon Hill
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. — Napoleon Hill
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
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. — Napoleon Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. — Napoleon Hill
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. — Napoleon Hill
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. — Napoleon Hill
First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you. — Napoleon Hill
I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. — Napoleon Hill
A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition. — Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill Quotes About Money
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. — Napoleon Hill
Money without brains is always dangerous. — Napoleon Hill
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. — Napoleon Hill
Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works. — Napoleon Hill
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others. — Napoleon Hill
Time is wealth, and unlike money when it is gone you cannot replace it. — 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
Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation. — Napoleon Hill
Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it. — Napoleon Hill
One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money. — Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill Quotes About Motivational
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. — Napoleon Hill
Set your target and keep trying until you reach 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
You become what you think about — Napoleon Hill
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself. — Napoleon Hill
You can do it if you believe you can. — Napoleon Hill
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire. — Napoleon Hill
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. — Napoleon Hill
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time. — Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill Quotes About Inspirational
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
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will. — Napoleon Hill
If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. — Napoleon Hill
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. — Napoleon Hill
Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit. — Napoleon Hill
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. — Napoleon Hill
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving. — 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
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. — Napoleon Hill
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. — Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill Quotes About Mind
Our own limitations are those we set up in our own minds. — Napoleon Hill
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
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can acheive. — Napoleon Hill
When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you. — Napoleon Hill
You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else. — 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
Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. — Napoleon Hill
If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. — Napoleon Hill
A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him. — Napoleon Hill
You either control your mind or it controls you. — Napoleon Hill
Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life — Napoleon Hill
Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. — Napoleon Hill
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. — Napoleon Hill
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. — Napoleon Hill
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
Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats. — Napoleon Hill
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
Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail. — Napoleon Hill
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious. — Napoleon Hill
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
Our own limitations are those we set up in our own minds. — Napoleon Hill
Action is the real measure of intelligence. — Napoleon Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire. — Napoleon Hill
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face. — Napoleon Hill
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; 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. — Napoleon Hill
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
A goal is a dream with a deadline. — Napoleon Hill
We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts. — Napoleon Hill
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
Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work! — Napoleon Hill
Set your target and keep trying until you reach it. — Napoleon Hill
The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite. — Napoleon Hill
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION! — 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
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. — Napoleon Hill
It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him. — Napoleon Hill
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. — Napoleon Hill
It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. — Napoleon Hill
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. — Napoleon Hill
Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins. — Napoleon Hill
Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking. — Napoleon Hill
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty. — Napoleon Hill
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
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
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
If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work — Napoleon Hill
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him. — Napoleon Hill
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. — Napoleon Hill
Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind. — Napoleon Hill
Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality. — Napoleon Hill
Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown. — Napoleon Hill
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. — Napoleon Hill
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. — Napoleon Hill
Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy. — Napoleon Hill
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge — Napoleon Hill
Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious. — Napoleon Hill
Life Lessons by Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill taught that success comes from having a clear vision, setting goals, and taking consistent action.
He also emphasized the importance of developing positive habits and cultivating a strong work ethic.
He believed that having an optimistic attitude and believing in yourself are essential for achieving success in life.
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