Napoleon Hill Quotes

prayer based upon FAITH always works. ~ Napoleon Hill

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis. ~ Napoleon Hill

The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you do not speak - Tom too tall Cunningham ~ Tom Cunningham

And you will have gone just one more step in the direction of developing the habit of looking for and finding the good qualities in others. I cannot overemphasize the far-reaching effects of this habit of praising, openly and enthusiastically, the good qualities in others; for this habit will soon reward you with a feeling of self-respect and manifestation of gratitude from others that will modify your entire personality. Here, again, the law of attraction enters, and ~ Napoleon Hill

It is always safe to talk about others as long as you speak of their good qualities. ~ Napoleon Hill

Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement. ~ 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

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action. ~ Napoleon Hill

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems. ~ 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

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature. ~ Napoleon Hill

Employers who understand human nature, get the best there is in men, not by criticism, but by constructive suggestion. ~ Napoleon Hill

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

It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while. ~ Napoleon Hill

The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined. ~ Napoleon Hill

You are more apt to "rust" out your brain from disuse than you are to wear it out from use. You can do it if you believe you can. ~ Napoleon Hill

First. 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

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. ~ Napoleon Hill

The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind. ~ Napoleon Hill

in long run sword is defeated by mind ~ Napoleon Hill

The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached. ~ Napoleon Hill

The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance ... We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts ... ~ Napoleon Hill

If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself. ~ Napoleon Hill

Keep your eyes and ears wide open - and your mouth closed, if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision. ~ Napoleon Hill

You either control your mind or it controls you. ~ Napoleon Hill

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

That is one of the tricks of 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

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair. ~ 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

Don't wait the time will never be right. ~ Napoleon Hill

Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others. ~ Napoleon Hill

Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure. ~ Napoleon Hill

Render more service than you are paid for and eventually you will be paid more for less services rendered. ~ Napoleon Hill

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

The entire world is made up of only two things, energy and matter. In elementary physics we learn that neither matter nor energy (the only two realities known to man) can be created nor destroyed. Both matter and energy can be transformed, but neither can be destroyed. Life is energy, if it is anything. If neither energy nor matter can be destroyed, of course life cannot be destroyed. Life, like other forms of energy, may be passed through various processes of transition, or change, but it cannot be destroyed. Death is mere transition. If death is not mere change, or transition, then nothing comes after death except a long, eternal, peaceful sleep, and sleep is nothing to be feared. Thus you may wipe out, forever, the fear of Death. ~ Napoleon Hill

Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features. ~ Napoleon Hill

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. ~ Napoleon Hill

In parting, I would remind you that Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions! ~ 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

Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it. ~ Napoleon Hill

Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail! ~ Napoleon Hill

I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects ~ Napoleon Hill

Your power of thought is the only thing that you have complete, unchallengeable control over. You do this through the power of will." Napoleon Hill, Author ~ Colin Gilmartin

One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you. ~ Napoleon Hill

You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize. ~ Napoleon Hill

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving ~ Napoleon Hill

Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts upon Only thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling. ~ Napoleon Hill

The cause of the depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing. ~ Napoleon Hill

One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back. ~ Napoleon Hill

You give before you get. ~ Napoleon Hill

Goals are dreams with a deadline. ~ Napoleon Hill

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact. ~ Napoleon Hill

Taking an inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. This handicap can be surmounted - and timidity translated into courage - through the aid of the principle of autosuggestion. ~ Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. ~ Robin S. Sharma

Somehow the Creator seems to favor those who know precisely what they want and what they do not want. ~ Napoleon Hill

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 in contact than they are by the merchandise. ~ Napoleon Hill

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

Self-confidence Formula ~ Napoleon Hill

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

Each of us is what we are because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which we permit to occupy our mind. Thoughts ~ Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all individual achievement is the adoption of a definite major purpose and a specific plan for its attainment. 22. ~ Napoleon Hill

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

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved. ~ Napoleon Hill

Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice, gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep, or the canary ~ Napoleon Hill

thoughts which go out from one's mind, also imbed themselves deeply in one's subconscious mind, where they serve as a magnet, pattern, or blueprint by which the subconscious mind is influenced while translating them into their physical equivalent. ~ Napoleon Hill

The chances are that your job likes you precisely as much as you like it, but no more. ~ Napoleon Hill

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

Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel. ~ Napoleon Hill

Remember that no one is ever rewarded or promoted because of a bad disposition and negative mental attitude ~ Napoleon Hill

Plan you work and work your plan. ~ Napoleon Hill

Most illness begins with a negative mind. ~ Napoleon Hill

AUTOSUGGESTION is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or, by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into this rich garden of the mind. ~ 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

When a group of individual brains are coordinated and function in Harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance, becomes available to every individual brain in the group. ~ Napoleon Hill

Man's greatest motivating force is his desire to please woman! The hunter who excelled during prehistoric days, before the dawn of civilization, did so, because of his desire to appear great in the eyes of woman. Man's nature has not changed in this respect. The "hunter" of today brings home no skins of wild animals, but he indicates his desire for her favor by supplying fine clothes, motor cars, and wealth. Man has the same desire to please woman that he had before the dawn of civilization. The only thing that has changed, is his method of pleasing. Men who accumulate large fortunes, and attain to great heights of power and fame, do so, mainly, to satisfy their desire to please women. ~ Napoleon Hill

Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations. ~ Napoleon Hill

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else. ~ Napoleon Hill

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT. ~ Napoleon Hill

No one is so good that he has no bad in him, & no one is so bad that he has no good in him ~ Napoleon Hill

If you fail to plan,you can plan to fail. ~ Napoleon Hill

Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation. ~ Napoleon Hill

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan. ~ Napoleon Hill

When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door. ~ Napoleon Hill

Thinking and saying you are handicapable instead of handicapped will not change anything about your disease or illness. It will help you think more positively about it though. ~ Tom Cunningham

You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other. ~ Napoleon Hill

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

Success come to those who become success conscious. ~ Napoleon Hill

Money without brains is always dangerous. ~ Napoleon Hill

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge. ~ Napoleon Hill

Self-respect is the best means of getting the respect of others. ~ Napoleon Hill

Grove encourages his people to work in small, autonomous work units in which everyone understands the system and their role in it. Each person contributes their knowledge, expertise and creativity. Team members are trained and motivated to produce to the best of their capacity. When crises arise, the team willingly puts in the extra time, energy and brain power to meet and beat the problems faced. ~ Napoleon Hill

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists. ~ Napoleon Hill

Riches begin in the form of thought! The amount is limited only by the person in whose mind the thought is put into motion. Faith removes limitations! ~ Napoleon Hill

Power is organized effort, as has already been stated! Success is based upon power! ~ Napoleon Hill

Scars are wisdom in disguise. ~ Napoleon Hill

The emotion of sex is an "irresistible force," against which there can be no such opposition as an "immovable body." When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a super power for action. ~ Napoleon Hill

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action! ~ Napoleon Hill

Believe it and achieve it. ~ 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

That the quality of service you render, plus the quantity, plus the mental attitude in which you render it determines the sort of job you hold and the amount of pay you receive. - NAPOLEON HILL ~ Napoleon Hill