Napoleon Hill
American author of success philosophy, 1883-1970
72 quotes.
Quotes by Napoleon Hill
- A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.
- A Quitter never wins – and – a Winner never quits.
- A real leader cannot be slandered or damaged by lies of the envious, because all such attempts serve only to turn the spot-light on his ability, and real ability always finds a generous following.
- Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.
- Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?
- Before you can secure co-operation from others; nay, before you have the right to ask for or expect co-operation from other people, you must first show a willingness to co-operate with them.
- Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
- Defeat is a destructive force only when it is accepted as failure!
- Discipline comes through self-control. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.
- Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.
- Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
- ENTHUSIASM is a state of mind that inspires and arouses one to put action into the task at hand.
- Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
- Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
- Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
- Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.
- Followers are willing followers when they know that their leader is a person with a definite chief aim who has the courage to back up that purpose with action.
- Give a man the sort of work that harmonizes with his nature and the best there is in him will exert itself.
- If a man preach the Golden Rule as a sound rule of conduct his words will fall upon deaf ears if he does not practice that which he preaches.
- If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity
- If you don’t control what you think, you cannot control what you do.
- If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.
- Interest yourself in others and you will be too busy to indulge in self-love.
- It is literally true that man, through the Law of Habit, shapes his own personality.
- It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
- Leadership is something that you must invite yourself into; it will never thrust itself upon you.
- Life is a mirror of your consistent thoughts.
- Life is too short and there is too much constructive work to be done to justify us in "striking back" at everyone who says that which we do not wish to hear.
- Make that aim clear and back it up with persistence which does not recognize the word "impossible."
- Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
- Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
- Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
- No mere combination of words can ever take the place of a deep belief in a statement that is expressed with burning enthusiasm.
- No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
- No one has the right to brand you as a failure except yourself.
- No one may become a real leader in any walk of life without practicing the habit of doing more work and better work than that for which he is paid.
- One of the major requisites for Leadership is the power of quick and firm DECISION!