Top 500 Napoleon Hill Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Because I know that my character is developed from my own acts and thoughts, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.”

— Napoleon Hill

452. “The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.”

— Napoleon Hill

453. “Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.”

— Napoleon Hill

454. “Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.”

— Napoleon Hill

455. “Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.”

— Napoleon Hill

456. “Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!”

— Napoleon Hill

457. “Every man’s own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!”

— Napoleon Hill

458. “When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.”

— Napoleon Hill

459. “You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.”

— Napoleon Hill

460. “When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway.”

— Napoleon Hill

461. “No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.”

— Napoleon Hill

462. “Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.”

— Napoleon Hill

463. “If you want prosperity, you must refuse to accept any circumstances that lead toward poverty.”

— Napoleon Hill

464. “Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.”

— Napoleon Hill

465. “Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.”

— Napoleon Hill

466. “Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.”

— Napoleon Hill

467. “One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.”

— Napoleon Hill

468. “Conceit is a fog that envelops a man’s real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .”

— Napoleon Hill

469. “Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.”

— Napoleon Hill

470. “The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.”

— Napoleon Hill

471. “The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.”

— Napoleon Hill

472. “The battle is all over except the ‘shouting’ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.”

— Napoleon Hill

473. “The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.”

— Napoleon Hill

474. “The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.”

— Napoleon Hill

475. “Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.”

— Napoleon Hill

476. “You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.”

— Napoleon Hill

477. “Scars are wisdom in disguise.”

— Napoleon Hill

478. “No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.”

— Napoleon Hill

479. “There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.”

— Napoleon Hill

480. “The only person to get even with are those who have helped you.”

— Napoleon Hill

481. “The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.”

— Napoleon Hill

482. “One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say.”

— Napoleon Hill

483. “All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.”

— Napoleon Hill

484. “No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.”

— Napoleon Hill

485. “Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.”

— Napoleon Hill

486. “Do not search for SUCCESS off in the distance, but instead recognize it and grasp it right where you are!”

— Napoleon Hill

487. “Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.”

— Napoleon Hill

488. “Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.”

— Napoleon Hill

489. “War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.”

— Napoleon Hill

490. “Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.”

— Napoleon Hill

491. “One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful.”

— Napoleon Hill

492. “It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.”

— Napoleon Hill

493. “No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.”

— Napoleon Hill

494. “Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.”

— Napoleon Hill

495. “If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.”

— Napoleon Hill

496. “If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.”

— Napoleon Hill

497. “Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.”

— Napoleon Hill

498. “If you think your lot has been hard, read ‘Up From Slavery’ by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.”

— Napoleon Hill

499. “People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.”

— Napoleon Hill

500. “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