"Live each day as if it were your last, and you’ll develop a keen respect for opportunity."
Napoleon Hill
Author, Motivational Speaker
Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author known for his influential book 'Think and Grow Rich,' which focuses on the principles of success and personal achievement.
- Born
- October 26, 1883
- Died
- November 8, 1970
- Quotes
- 711
- Rank
- #319
Quote collection
Napoleon Hill quotes (page 12 of 36)
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"Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible."
"If the mind of man can believe, the mind of man can achieve."
"Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it."
"No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it."
"When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds."
"No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."
"When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work."
"The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism."
"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."
"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."
"When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance."
"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action."
"Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach."
"Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand."
"Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness."
"Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith."
"Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis."
"Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
"Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought."