Top 500 Napoleon Hill Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

353. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

356. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

358. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

361. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

365. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

378. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

381. “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

382. “Loud threats often indicate deep fears.”

— Napoleon Hill

383. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

385. “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

386. “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

387. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

389. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

395. “Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.”

— Napoleon Hill

396. “Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.”

— Napoleon Hill

397. “The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

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399. “When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill