Napoleon Hill Quotes

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

Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.

A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.

Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.

FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE!

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.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

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.

Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

You either control your mind or it controls you.

When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

Change your mental attitude, & the World around you will change accordingly

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

The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.

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.

Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.

The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.

Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.

The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.

Live each day as if it were your last, and you’ll develop a keen respect for opportunity.

I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of success, and discovered that each of them had received guidance from unknown sources, although many of them were reluctant to admit this discovery.

God has given us control over one thing in our lives - our thoughts.

If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.” You need a definite plan, it should be written down, and it should dictate, with military precision, the moves that you will be taking. Napoleon Hill said, “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.

We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

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. –

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.

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

The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.

Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

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.

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

If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end.

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

The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just as easy to switch over and get exactly what they want out of life, not recognizing that the mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.