"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."
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 19 of 36)
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"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."
"The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge."
"Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the POWER TO INFLUENCE HIS OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, and through it, gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence."
"The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man."
"They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own."
"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination."
"The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice."
"Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works."
"If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you already have, instead of requests for things you do not have, you will obtain results much faster."
"Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs."
"Fear is faith in reverse gear."
"Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality."
"Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea."
"Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand."
"The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else."
"I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality, therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person."
"Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain."
"The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do."
"Habits are first cobwebs, then cables."