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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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

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Achieve, Vision, Dreams, Achievement, Accomplishment, Dream

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Judgment, Judging, Justice

Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsessions, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Persistence, Mind, Rich, Fail, Failure

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Knowledge, Victory, Goals, Purpose

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

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Helping, Teamwork, Teams

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: Failure, Persistence, Perseverance

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

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

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

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Fear

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Laziness

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

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

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge”
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Critics, Criticism

No follower of this philosophy can reasonably expect to accumulate a fortune without experiencing “temporary defeat”.
—Napoleon Hill

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

Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth.
—Napoleon Hill

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Career, Enjoyment

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Money

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Mind, The Mind

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea!
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Ideas

If the mind can conceive it, you can achieve it.
—Napoleon Hill

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Great

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Concentration

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Mind, The Mind

You give before you get.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Charity, Giving

Knowledge is only potential power.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Knowledge

Opportunity—Often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Opportunity

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