"A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs."
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 15 of 36)
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"Indecision is the seedling of fear."
"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought."
"Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession."
"No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind."
"Most illness begins with a negative mind."
"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit."
"Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success."
"If you learn to budget your time correctly, you will have time for all your needs."
"If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else."
"Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island."
"The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself."
"When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony, and work toward a definite objective, they place themselves in position, through that alliance, to absorb power directly from the great universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence."
"Cherish the music that stirs in your heart."
"Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!"
"Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence."
"Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love."
"The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets."
"The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just as easy to switch over and get exactly what they want out of life, not recognizing that the mind attracts the thing it dwells upon."
"Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects."