"Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself."
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 29 of 36)
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"What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told."
"Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia."
"Your associates can be priceless."
"Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past."
"Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge."
"Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success."
"When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door."
"Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration."
"Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones."
"Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature."
"If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely."
"Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start."
"The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature."
"The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction."
"People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success."
"The single most influential force that controls your attitudes, beliefs, capabilities and emotions is repetition - the words you silently use, over and over again, in your internal dialogue with yourself."
"Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind."
"Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought."
"If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance."