Top 500 Napoleon Hill Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories does he have to his credit which qualifies him to judge what can and can’t be accomplished.”

— Napoleon Hill

352. “I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

354. “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

355. “Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.”

— Napoleon Hill

356. “Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.”

— Napoleon Hill

357. “When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.”

— Napoleon Hill

358. “You wouldn’t desire something if you didn’t have the talent to carry it out.”

— Napoleon Hill

359. “It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!”

— Napoleon Hill

360. “Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can’t.”

— Napoleon Hill

361. “We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.”

— Napoleon Hill

362. “A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.”

— Napoleon Hill

363. “Most illness begins with a negative mind.”

— Napoleon Hill

364. “If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.”

— Napoleon Hill

365. “One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.”

— Napoleon Hill

366. “Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

368. “Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it’s direction.”

— Napoleon Hill

369. “Do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These laws are available to every person who has the faith and the courage to use them.”

— Napoleon Hill

370. “It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.”

— Napoleon Hill

371. “Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.”

— Napoleon Hill

372. “Those who can’t take directions graciously have no business giving them.”

— Napoleon Hill

373. “You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.”

— Napoleon Hill

374. “The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.”

— Napoleon Hill

375. “If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.”

— Napoleon Hill

376. “If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day’s work you have done today?”

— Napoleon Hill

377. “I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

379. “Riches don’t respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.”

— Napoleon Hill

380. “One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man’s familiarity with the word ’impossible.”

— Napoleon Hill

381. “All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

383. “The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

385. “If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.”

— Napoleon Hill

386. “Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one’s self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.”

— Napoleon Hill

387. “Loud threats often indicate deep fears.”

— Napoleon Hill

388. “The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.”

— Napoleon Hill

389. “Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.”

— Napoleon Hill

390. “We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.”

— Napoleon Hill

391. “Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.”

— Napoleon Hill

392. “Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.”

— Napoleon Hill

393. “If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.”

— Napoleon Hill

394. “A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.”

— Napoleon Hill

395. “It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.”

— Napoleon Hill

396. “A person’s acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.”

— Napoleon Hill

397. “It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.”

— Napoleon Hill

398. “Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.”

— Napoleon Hill

399. “You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.”

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400. “It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.”

— Napoleon Hill