Top 500 Napoleon Hill Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.”

— Napoleon Hill

202. “You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is ‘rider’ and who is ‘horse.’”

— Napoleon Hill

203. “Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!”

— Napoleon Hill

204. “The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.”

— Napoleon Hill

205. “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

206. “To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to “know” is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.”

— Napoleon Hill

207. “There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.”

— Napoleon Hill

208. “To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.”

— Napoleon Hill

209. “A fearless man thrives on far horizons.”

— Napoleon Hill

210. “One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.”

— Napoleon Hill

211. “Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.”

— Napoleon Hill

212. “Sex energy is the creative energy of all creative geniuses.”

— Napoleon Hill

213. “When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.”

— Napoleon Hill

214. “Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.”

— Napoleon Hill

215. “The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.”

— Napoleon Hill

216. “Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.”

— Napoleon Hill

217. “We become who we hang out with.”

— Napoleon Hill

218. “It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.”

— Napoleon Hill

219. “Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth.”

— Napoleon Hill

220. “Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.”

— Napoleon Hill

221. “When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.”

— Napoleon Hill

222. “You can’t change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It’s not what you are going to do, but it’s what you are doing now that counts.”

— Napoleon Hill

223. “Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.”

— Napoleon Hill

224. “Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.”

— Napoleon Hill

225. “Worry is a state of mind based on fear.”

— Napoleon Hill

226. “Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.”

— Napoleon Hill

227. “Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.”

— Napoleon Hill

228. “Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.”

— Napoleon Hill

229. “Your own mental attitude is your real boss.”

— Napoleon Hill

230. “Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself.”

— Napoleon Hill

231. “A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.”

— Napoleon Hill

232. “Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.”

— Napoleon Hill

233. “If it isn’t your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity.”

— Napoleon Hill

234. “It takes a habit to replace a habit.”

— Napoleon Hill

235. “Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, 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

236. “Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.”

— Napoleon Hill

237. “Indecision is the seedling of fear.”

— Napoleon Hill

238. “Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on.”

— Napoleon Hill

239. “Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.”

— Napoleon Hill

240. “Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”

— Napoleon Hill

241. “FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE!”

— Napoleon Hill

242. “There is no such thing as Something for nothing.”

— Napoleon Hill

243. “Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude – your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.”

— Napoleon Hill

244. “The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped.”

— Napoleon Hill

245. “Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.”

— Napoleon Hill

246. “Enthusiasm is contagious, and the person who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people.”

— Napoleon Hill

247. “Live each day as if it were your last, and you’ll develop a keen respect for opportunity.”

— Napoleon Hill

248. “No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.”

— Napoleon Hill

249. “The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.”

— Napoleon Hill

250. “Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.”

— Napoleon Hill