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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotes by Napoleon Hill (American Author)

Inspirational Quotations 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.)

More: Wikipedia • READ: Works by Napoleon Hill

A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.
—Napoleon Hill

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

Through some strange and powerful principle of “mental chemistry” which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, “that something” which recognizes no such word as “impossible,” and accepts no such reality as failure.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Desires, Desire

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Possibilities, Potential

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Excellence, Entrepreneurs

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

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Cooperation, Help

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Success, Success & Failure

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Persistence

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Opportunity

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Imagination, Ideas

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
—Napoleon Hill

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.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Failure, Success & Failure, Perseverance

Anything the mind can conceive, and truly believe, it can achieve.
—Napoleon Hill

Capability means imagination…
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Imagination

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, Success & 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: Victory, Knowledge, Goals, Purpose

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

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

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

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Excellence

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: Mind, Persistence, Fail, Rich, Failure

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

Money without brains is always dangerous.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Money

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

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

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.
—Napoleon Hill

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

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Criticism, Growth

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