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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

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: Failure

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Achievement, Desires, Desire

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

Love is, without question, life’s greatest experience.
—Napoleon Hill

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Success & Failure, Success

Capability means imagination…
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Imagination

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Sacrifice

Think and grow rich.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Wealth, Riches

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

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

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

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

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

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Society, Education

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

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, Goals, Purpose

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

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
—Napoleon Hill

The day of the “go-getter” has passed. He has been supplanted by the “go-giver”.
—Napoleon Hill

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

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: Charity, Giving

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

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

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: Thought, Failure, Thoughts

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

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Honesty

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: Desire, Desires

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

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

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

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

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

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

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Goal, Planning, Failure

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

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

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

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Miscellaneous, Failure

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

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