Top 500 Napoleon Hill Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.”

— Napoleon Hill

52. “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.”

— Napoleon Hill

53. “O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

54. “Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.”

— Napoleon Hill

55. “Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”

— Napoleon Hill

56. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”

— Napoleon Hill

57. “A positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude.”

— Napoleon Hill

58. “When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.”

— Napoleon Hill

59. “Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.”

— Napoleon Hill

60. “The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.”

— Napoleon Hill

61. “The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”

— Napoleon Hill

62. “Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”

— Napoleon Hill

63. “No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.”

— Napoleon Hill

64. “Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.”

— Napoleon Hill

65. “Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”

— Napoleon Hill

66. “Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.”

— Napoleon Hill

67. “What is initiative? I’ll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.”

— Napoleon Hill

68. “Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”

— Napoleon Hill

69. “I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.”

— Napoleon Hill

70. “Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.”

— Napoleon Hill

71. “You can always become the person you would have liked to be.”

— Napoleon Hill

72. “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.”

— Napoleon Hill

73. “The worst of all human ailments: indecision.”

— Napoleon Hill

74. “The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation.”

— Napoleon Hill

75. “Fear is faith in reverse gear.”

— Napoleon Hill

76. “There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.”

— Napoleon Hill

77. “One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you.”

— Napoleon Hill

78. “If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way. Don’t wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.”

— Napoleon Hill

79. “The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.”

— Napoleon Hill

80. “Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.”

— Napoleon Hill

81. “Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

82. “Don’t be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the ‘Kite’ of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.”

— Napoleon Hill

83. “Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.”

— Napoleon Hill

84. “Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.”

— Napoleon Hill

85. “What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!”

— Napoleon Hill

86. “Faith is the head chemist of the mind.”

— Napoleon Hill

87. “Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.”

— Napoleon Hill

88. “If you must let someone down, be sure it isn’t the friend who helped you up when you were down.”

— Napoleon Hill

89. “Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.”

— Napoleon Hill

90. “Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self – his true, inner self – through temporary defeat.”

— Napoleon Hill

91. “Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.”

— Napoleon Hill

92. “Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.”

— Napoleon Hill

93. “Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.”

— Napoleon Hill

94. “Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.”

— Napoleon Hill

95. “Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.”

— Napoleon Hill

96. “The Master Mind principle: Two or more people actively engaged in the pursuit of a definite purpose with a positive mental attitude, constitute an unbeatable force.”

— Napoleon Hill

97. “Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.”

— Napoleon Hill

98. “Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.”

— Napoleon Hill

99. “Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.”

— Napoleon Hill

100. “One who has loved truly can never lose entirely.”

— Napoleon Hill