Napoleon Hill Quotes

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

Napoleon Hill

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

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

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

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

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

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 (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

No man is ever whipped, until he quits in his own mind.

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.

Napoleon Hill (The Law of Success, 1937)

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea!

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

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.

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

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 (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

The greatest achievements of men, were at first, nothing but dreams of the minds of men who knew that dreams are the seedlings of all achievements. A burning desire, to be and to do, is the starting point, from which the dreamer must take off.

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The world is filled with an abundance of opportunity which the dreamers of the past never knew.

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches!

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

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 (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Napoleon Hill (The Law of Success, 1937)

If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't

If you think you'll lose, you're lost
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will -
It's all in the state of mind.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger of faster man,
But soon or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can!

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

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

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

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

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Napoleon Hill (The Law of Success, 1937)

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 (The Law of Success, 1937)

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 (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill (Succes Through a Positive Mental Attitude, 1960)

Time is valuable, and when it is gone, it is gone. Time is wealth, and unlike money, when it is gone, you cannot replace it.

Napoleon Hill (Quoted in Grow Rich: With Peace of Mind, 1983)

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill (Napoleon Hill's hallmark expression used in almost every book of his.)

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

Napoleon Hill

Before success comes in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. 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.

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

Nature yields her most profound secrets to the man who is determined to uncover them. 

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

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Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Napoleon Hill (The Law of Success, 1937)

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Napoleon Hill (The Law of Success, 1937)

Just as a master musician may cause the most beautiful strains of music to pour forth from the strings of a violin, so may you arouse the genius which lies asleep in your brain, and cause it to drive you upward to whatever goal you may wish to achieve.

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

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 (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)

Napoleon Hill Biography

Born: October 26, 1883
Died: November 8, 1970

Napoleon Hill was an American author who pioneered the personal success literature. He is probably most known for the bestselling book "Think and Grow Rich"

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick