In this article, we collected 75 Napoleon Hill Quotes that will help you to get motivated and inspired while walking along your path to success.
75 Napoleon Hill Quotes
#1
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
― Napoleon Hill
#2
“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
#3
“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”
― Napoleon Hill
#4
“An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.”
― Napolean Hill
#5
“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”
― Napoleon Hill
#6
“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
#7
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
― Napoleon Hill
#8
“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
#9
“If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.”
― Napoleon Hill
#10
“There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. 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. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.”
― Napoleon Hill
#11
“Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.”
― Napoleon Hill
#12
“Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.”
― Napoleon Hill
#13
“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
#14
“Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.”
― Napolean Hill
#15
“Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
― Napoleon Hill
#16
“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
#17
“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
#18
“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”
― Napoleon Hill
#19
“You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear. The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you?”
― Napoleon Hill
#20
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
― Napoleon Hill
#21
“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
#22
“The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.”
― Napoleon Hill
#23
“A man whose mind is filled with fear not only destroys his own chances of intelligent action, but he transmits these destructive vibrations to the minds of all who come in contact with him, and destroys, also, their chances.”
― Napoleon Hill
#24
“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.”
― Napoleon Hill
#25
“Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you;until you have culrivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.”
― Napoleon Hill
#26
“It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.”
― Napoleon Hill
#27
“Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through “opinions” and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through “opinions” or ridicule.”
― Napoleon Hill
#28
“Both success and failure are largely the results of habit!”
― Napoleon Hill
#29
“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 the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their “other selves.”
― Napoleon Hill
#30
“Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.”
― Napoleon Hill
#31
“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
#32
“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”
― Napoleon Hill
#33
“If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put your dream 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
#34
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
― Napoleon Hill
#35
“The Creator never singles out an individual for an important service to mankind without first testing him, through struggle, in proportion to the nature of the service he is to render.”
― Napoleon Hill
#36
“Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”
― Napoleon Hill
#37
“Experience has proven that the best-educated people are often those who are known as ‘self-made’ or self-educated. It takes more than a university degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated has learned to get whatever they want in life without violating the rights of others. Education consists not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently applied. People are paid not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with what they know.”
― Napoleon Hill
#38
“We refuse to believe that which we don’t understand.”
― Napoleon Hill
#39
“It is one of the strangest anomalies of life that the absence of fear, and not formal education or brilliance of mind, is the major cause of individual success.”
― Napoleon Hill
#40
“Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself.”
― Napoleon Hill
#41
“We who desire to accumulate riches, should remember the real leaders of the world always have been men who harnessed, and put into practical use, the intangible, unseen forces of unborn opportunity, and have converted those forces, [or impulses of thought], into sky-scrapers, cities, factories, airplanes, automobiles, and every form of convenience that makes life more pleasant.”
― Napoleon Hill
#42
“If life hands you a lemon, don’t complain, but instead make lemonade to sell those who are thirsty from complaining.”
― Napoleon Hill
#43
“The best method of protecting oneself against the inflow of negative thoughts being released by other people is that of keeping the broadcasting station so busy sending out positive thoughts that no time will be available for receiving negative thoughts. This formula is unbeatable.”
― Napoleon Hill
#44
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
― Napoleon Hill
#45
“I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality. Therefore I will concentrate my thoughts for 30 minutes daily upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.”
― Napoleon Hill
#46
“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
#47
“Those who work for money alone, and who receive for their pay nothing but money, are always underpaid, no matter how much they receive. Money is necessary, but the big prizes of life cannot be measured in dollars and cents. No”
― Napoleon Hill
#48
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
― Napoleon Hill
#49
“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.”
― Napoleon Hill
#50
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”
― Napoleon Hill
#51
“Now, let us go back to the starting point, and become informed as to how the original seed of an idea, plan, or purpose may be planted in the mind. The information is easily conveyed: any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. This is why you are asked to write out a statement of your major purpose, or definite chief aim, commit it to memory, and repeat it, in audible words, day after day, until these vibrations of sound have reached your subconscious mind.”
― Napoleon Hill
#52
“If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.”
― Napoleon Hill
#53
“Remember that your real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are.”
― Napoleon Hill
#54
“There is a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the opportunity to render useful service in a noteworthy fashion.”
― Napoleon Hill
#55
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
― Napoleon Hill
#56
“The Disaster of Negative Thinking. 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
#57
“No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy; unless you let him.”
― Napoleon Hill
#58
“It should be recognized as a crime (in reality it is a crime of the worst nature) for any parent to build inferiority complexes in the mind of a child through unnecessary criticism. Employers who understand human nature get the best there is out of people not by criticism but by constructive suggestion. Parents may accomplish the same results with their children. Criticism will plant fear or resentment in the human heart but it will not build love or affection.”
― Napoleon Hill
#59
“Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.”
― Napolean Hill
#60
“Discipline comes through self-control. This means that one must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.”
― Napoleon Hill
#61
“Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.”
― Napoleon Hill
#62
“And men are subject, also, to this same Law of Attraction. Go into any cheap boarding house district in any city and there you will find people of the same general trend of mind associated together. On the other hand, go into any prosperous community and there you will find people of the same general tendencies associated together. Men who are successful always seek the company of others who are successful, while men who are on the ragged side of life always seek the company of those who are in similar circumstances. “Misery loves company.”
― Napoleon Hill
#63
“To be successful, you must find peace of mind, acquire the material needs of life, and above all, attain happiness. All of these evidences of success begin in the form of thought impulses.”
― Napoleon Hill
#64
“Remember, therefore, when reading aloud the statement of your desire (through which you are endeavoring to develop a “money consciousness”), that the mere reading of the words is of NO CONSEQUENCE-UNLESS you mix emotion or feeling with your words. If you repeat a million times the famous Emil Coue formula, “Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better,” without mixing emotion and FAITH with your words, you will experience no desirable results. Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts upon ONLY thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.”
― Napoleon Hill
#65
“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.”
― Napoleon Hill
#66
“One comes to believe whatever one repeats to one’s self, whether the statement be true or false.”
― Napoleon Hill
#67
“Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.”
― Napoleon Hill
#68
“Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
― Napoleon Hill
#69
“If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth.”
― Napoleon Hill
#70
“It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature.”
― Napoleon Hill
#71
“The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.”
― Napoleon Hill
#72
“Successful men become successful only because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success.”
― Napoleon Hill
#73
“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
#74
“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
#75
“You become what you think about.”
― Napoleon Hill