Top 500 Napoleon Hill Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Practice being grateful for everything that life has blessed you with.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

303. “If you don’t know what you want, don’t say you never had a chance.”

— Napoleon Hill

304. “Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by “opinions” when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.”

— Napoleon Hill

305. “Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

307. “Success is knowing what you’re doing, loving what you’re doing, and believing what you’re doing.”

— Napoleon Hill

308. “The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”

— Napoleon Hill

309. “The single most influential force that controls your attitudes, beliefs, capabilities and emotions is repetition – the words you silently use, over and over again, in your internal dialogue with yourself.”

— Napoleon Hill

310. “An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.”

— Napoleon Hill

311. “I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.”

— Napoleon Hill

312. “Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.”

— Napoleon Hill

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313. “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

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314. “No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.”

— Napoleon Hill

315. “The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.”

— Napoleon Hill

316. “Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.”

— Napoleon Hill

317. “Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.”

— Napoleon Hill

318. “Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.”

— Napoleon Hill

319. “Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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321. “The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.”

— Napoleon Hill

322. “There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.”

— Napoleon Hill

323. “Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.”

— Napoleon Hill

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324. “Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life’s greatest gifts.”

— Napoleon Hill

325. “It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.”

— Napoleon Hill

326. “The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.”

— Napoleon Hill

327. “Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.”

— Napoleon Hill

328. “Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats.”

— Napoleon Hill

329. “The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.”

— Napoleon Hill

330. “The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.”

— Napoleon Hill

331. “If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.”

— Napoleon Hill

332. “Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

333. “Riches begin in the form of thought.”

— Napoleon Hill

334. “It’s a sure thing that you’ll not finish if you don’t start.”

— Napoleon Hill

335. “You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.”

— Napoleon Hill

336. “No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.”

— Napoleon Hill

337. “The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.”

— Napoleon Hill

338. “Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.”

— Napoleon Hill

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339. “When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in a position, through the alliance, to absorb the power directly from the great storehouse of Infinite Intelligence.”

— Napoleon Hill

340. “FAITH is the element, the “chemical” which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.”

— Napoleon Hill

341. “Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.”

— Napoleon Hill

342. “I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.”

— Napoleon Hill

343. “A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.”

— Napoleon Hill

344. “If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.”

— Napoleon Hill

345. “Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!”

— Napoleon Hill

346. “The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.”

— Napoleon Hill

347. “Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”

— Napoleon Hill

348. “Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.”

— Napoleon Hill

349. “Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.”

— Napoleon Hill

350. “You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts.”

— Napoleon Hill