Top 500 Napoleon Hill Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Fear is the tool of a man-made devil.”

— Napoleon Hill

252. “First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.”

— Napoleon Hill

253. “A negative attitude toward others can never bring me success.”

— Napoleon Hill

254. “Believe it and achieve it.”

— Napoleon Hill

255. “Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.”

— Napoleon Hill

256. “The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.”

— Napoleon Hill

257. “Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.”

— Napoleon Hill

258. “Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

261. “You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind.”

— Napoleon Hill

262. “We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.”

— Napoleon Hill

263. “You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.”

— Napoleon Hill

264. “Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.”

— Napoleon Hill

265. “Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.”

— Napoleon Hill

266. “That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another’s hopes and plans.”

— Napoleon Hill

267. “No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.”

— Napoleon Hill

268. “If you are sure you are right, you need not worry what the world thinks.”

— Napoleon Hill

269. “A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.”

— Napoleon Hill

270. “Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.”

— Napoleon Hill

271. “The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.”

— Napoleon Hill

272. “Whatever your mind feeds upon your mind attracts to you.”

— Napoleon Hill

273. “Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”

— Napoleon Hill

274. “All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.”

— Napoleon Hill

275. “It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.”

— Napoleon Hill

276. “Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.”

— Napoleon Hill

277. “Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you’ll be controlling the bigger ones.”

— Napoleon Hill

278. “The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”

— Napoleon Hill

279. “All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind.”

— Napoleon Hill

280. “Knowledge is only potential power.”

— Napoleon Hill

281. “You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.”

— Napoleon Hill

282. “Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.”

— Napoleon Hill

283. “There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!”

— Napoleon Hill

284. “People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.”

— Napoleon Hill

285. “Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.”

— Napoleon Hill

286. “The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.”

— Napoleon Hill

287. “Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.”

— Napoleon Hill

288. “There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.”

— Napoleon Hill

289. “Money without brains is always dangerous.”

— Napoleon Hill

290. “If your environment is not to your liking, change it!”

— Napoleon Hill

291. “Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.”

— Napoleon Hill

292. “God has given us control over one thing in our lives – our thoughts.”

— Napoleon Hill

293. “The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.”

— Napoleon Hill

294. “The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.”

— Napoleon Hill

295. “Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.”

— Napoleon Hill

296. “If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.”

— Napoleon Hill

297. “If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you will never have real wealth based on peace of mind.”

— Napoleon Hill

298. “One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.”

— Napoleon Hill

299. “The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.”

— Napoleon Hill

300. “The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it.”

— Napoleon Hill