Quotes by Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

— Napoleon Hill

Success

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

— Napoleon Hill

Wisdom

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

— Napoleon Hill

Success

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

— Napoleon Hill

Wisdom

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

— Napoleon Hill

Success

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

— Napoleon Hill

Success

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

— Napoleon Hill

Success

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

— Napoleon Hill

Love

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

— Napoleon Hill

Success

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

— Napoleon Hill

Wisdom

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

— Napoleon Hill

Wisdom

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

— Napoleon Hill

Success

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

— Napoleon Hill

Wisdom

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

— Napoleon Hill

Wisdom

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

— Napoleon Hill

Success

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

— Napoleon Hill

Wisdom

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

— Napoleon Hill

Education

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

— Napoleon Hill

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Success

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

— Napoleon Hill

Success

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

— Napoleon Hill

Life

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

— Napoleon Hill

Success

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

— Napoleon Hill

Wisdom