Top 500 Napoleon Hill Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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

402. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

404. “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

405. “The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.”

— Napoleon Hill

406. “Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.”

— Napoleon Hill

407. “If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don’t like.”

— Napoleon Hill

408. “The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.”

— Napoleon Hill

409. “You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.”

— Napoleon Hill

410. “We refuse to believe that which we don’t understand.”

— Napoleon Hill

411. “If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it!”

— Napoleon Hill

412. “The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.”

— Napoleon Hill

413. “The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.”

— Napoleon Hill

414. “Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.”

— Napoleon Hill

415. “Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.”

— Napoleon Hill

416. “Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.”

— Napoleon Hill

417. “The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.”

— Napoleon Hill

418. “The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.”

— Napoleon Hill

419. “It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.”

— Napoleon Hill

420. “God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT!”

— Napoleon Hill

421. “If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you have already received, instead of requests for what you do not have, you will obtain results a great deal faster.”

— Napoleon Hill

422. “Love is, without question life’s greatest experience.”

— Napoleon Hill

423. “I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.”

— Napoleon Hill

424. “No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.”

— Napoleon Hill

425. “Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.”

— Napoleon Hill

426. “Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.”

— Napoleon Hill

427. “If you can’t forgive, don’t ask to be forgiven.”

— Napoleon Hill

428. “Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.”

— Napoleon Hill

429. “If you learn to budget your time correctly, you will have time for all your needs.”

— Napoleon Hill

430. “The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.”

— Napoleon Hill

431. “What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.”

— Napoleon Hill

432. “Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.”

— Napoleon Hill

433. “Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you.”

— Napoleon Hill

434. “Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.”

— Napoleon Hill

435. “The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.”

— Napoleon Hill

436. “A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.”

— Napoleon Hill

437. “You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.”

— Napoleon Hill

438. “There is some one thing that you can do better than anyone else in the world could do it. Search until you find out what this particular line of endeavor is, then organize all of your forces and attack it with the belief that you are going to win.”

— Napoleon Hill

439. “No man is ever whipped until he quits – in his own mind.”

— Napoleon Hill

440. “Who told you it couldn’t be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word ‘impossible’ so freely?”

— Napoleon Hill

441. “You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.”

— Napoleon Hill

442. “Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.”

— Napoleon Hill

443. “Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.”

— Napoleon Hill

444. “The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.”

— Napoleon Hill

445. “Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they’re convinced their idea is not going to work.”

— Napoleon Hill

446. “Cherish the music that stirs in your heart.”

— Napoleon Hill

447. “Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.”

— Napoleon Hill

448. “The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.”

— Napoleon Hill

449. “Nothing is more tragic – or more common – than mental inertia.”

— Napoleon Hill

450. “Watch the one ahead of you, and you’ll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.”

— Napoleon Hill