Napoleon Hill was an American author and a prominent member of the New Thought movement. He was also a well-known self help author. He became an important personality in the 20th century but is now regarded as an artful conman by most. Hill was famous for writing a range of books that focused on the different ways in which one could grow rich and most of his books became hugely popular. Hill had initially wanted to be a lawyer but he could not complete his degree due to financial strife and eventually took to writing. His most famous work 'Think and Grow Rich’ became an instant hit. His other famous works include ‘Outwitting the Devil’ and ‘The Law of Success’; which also proved to be extremely popular among the readers. Hill’s books argued that it is possible for people to eventually become rich and successful if they truly want it. The passion and the simplicity of the idea proved to be hugely popular among the masses. Hill was a great orator and delivered plenty of pearls of wisdom through his life and works. We have compiled his quotes and thoughts which have been excerpted from his books and writings. Here is a selection of thoughts and quotes by Napoleon Hill on success, money, fame, rich, inspiration, career, desire, power, pursuit, way and goals.
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.
Napoleon Hill
Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.
Napoleon Hill
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.
Napoleon Hill
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.
Napoleon Hill
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.
Remember that your dominating thoughts attract,
through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most
convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Napoleon Hill
If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.
Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love." Napoleon Hill
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Napoleon Hill
The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.
