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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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: Purpose, Knowledge, Goals, Victory

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
Topics: Confidence, World, Goal

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

In your search for the secret of the method, do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These laws are available to every person who has the faith and the courage to use them.
—Napoleon Hill

One thing we all know, if one does not possess persistence, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.
—Napoleon Hill

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Desire, Achievement, Desires, Entrepreneurs

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

There is no such thing as something for nothing.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Realistic Expectations

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Failure

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Loyalty

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

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Persistence, Perseverance

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Gold, Money

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to deliver the goods when they say they will.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Integrity

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

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Happiness

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

You can be anything you want to be, if you only believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Achievement, Act, Dance, Think, Belief, Achieve, Believe, Faith, Mind

Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.
—Napoleon Hill

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Reality, Dreams

Ideas… they have the power…
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Ideas

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Procrastination, Defects

Faith is the head chemist of the mind.
—Napoleon Hill

No man is ever whipped, until he quits—in his own mind.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Perseverance, Failure

Those who have cultivated the habit of persistence seem to enjoy insurance against failure… The hidden Guide lets no one enjoy great achievement without passing the persistence test. Those who can’t take it simply do not make the grade.
—Napoleon Hill

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, Time Management, Action, Humankind

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy—unless you let him.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Control, Self-Control

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Success, Society, Success & Failure

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

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

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