Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Napoleon Hill (American Author)

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) was an early American self-help writer whose Depression-era classic Think and Grow Rich became a pop bestseller.

Born in a one-room cabin in Wise County, Virginia, Hill became a reporter at a young age. When he interviewed steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie for an assignment, Carnegie told Hill that there was a formula for success, and anyone could achieve it. Carnegie encouraged Hill to write a book about this idea.

Over the next 19 years, Hill interviewed hundreds of successful people—from businesspersons such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller to politicians such as Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Joseph Stalin—and asked how they had achieved their power, fame, and fortune. Hill refined his early ideas into an accessible self-help book and published Think and Grow Rich (1937.) It was hugely successful, and continues to be so—-it has sold over 100 million copies.

Think and Grow Rich and Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends And Influence People (1936) started the positive thinking movement.

Hill is also the author of The Law of Success (1928,) The Magic Ladder to Success (1930,) and How to Raise Your Own Salary (1953.)

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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Persistence, Character, Perseverance, Failure

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Responsibility

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
Topics: Perseverance, Persistence

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
Topics: Procrastination, Action, Time Management, Humankind

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Giving, Charity

Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Failure, Success

Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. Millions of men go through life in misery and poverty, because they lack a sound plan through which to accumulate a fortune.
Napoleon Hill

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Intelligence, Action

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Failure, Adversity

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.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Power, Purpose, Goals

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.
Napoleon Hill

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Goals

It is always your next move.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Action, Choice

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Endurance, Effort, Perseverance, Persistence, Resolve

Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.
Napoleon Hill

Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.
Napoleon Hill

Worry is a state of mind based on fear.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Fear, Worry

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
Topics: Thoughts, Thought, Failure

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
Topics: Winning, Success & Failure, Success

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Truth

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Miscellaneous, Failure

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment. Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to ORDER.
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
Topics: Imagination

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Experience

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 came just one step *beyond* the point at which defeat had overtaken them.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Persistence, Failure, Perseverance

Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Decisions

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
Topics: Mistakes

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Planning, Goals

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

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Napoleon Hill
Topics: Responsibility

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