Quotes by Hill, Napoleon




Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 November 8, 1970) was an American author who was one the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time..

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

Hill, Napoleon on adversity
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"Indecision is the seedling of fear."

Hill, Napoleon on decisions
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true."

Hill, Napoleon on dream
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"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought."

Hill, Napoleon on education
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"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

Hill, Napoleon on effort
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"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited."

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"No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like."

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"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."

Hill, Napoleon on environment
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"You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for."

Hill, Napoleon on excellence
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"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

Hill, Napoleon on excellence
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"It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served."

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

Hill, Napoleon on experience
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"The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does."

Hill, Napoleon on extra mile
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"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"Fears are nothing more than states of mind."

Hill, Napoleon on fear
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"The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty."

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"You give before you get."

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"There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown."

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"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

Hill, Napoleon on achievement
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"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."

Hill, Napoleon on goals
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"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

Hill, Napoleon on goals
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"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle..."

Hill, Napoleon on growth
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"Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge."

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"Ideas... they have the power"

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"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea."

Hill, Napoleon on ideas
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"The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man."

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"Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts."

Hill, Napoleon on imagination
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"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."

Hill, Napoleon on imagination
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"Capability means imagination..."

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"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth."

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"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action."

Hill, Napoleon on inertia
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"There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will."

Hill, Napoleon on integrity
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