Top 500 Napoleon Hill Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Render more service than you are paid for and eventually you will be paid more for less services rendered.”

— 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. “Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

208. “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

209. “No man can become a permanent success without taking others along with him.”

— Napoleon Hill

210. “FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.”

— Napoleon Hill

211. “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

212. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

218. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

228. “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

229. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

232. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

238. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

240. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

244. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

246. “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

247. “Indecision is the seedling of fear.”

— Napoleon Hill

248. “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

249. “Have faith in yourself; faith in the infinite.”

— Napoleon Hill

250. “Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.”

— Napoleon Hill