Oliver Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author. He is known best for his book Think and Grow Rich which is among the 10 best selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life. Most of his books were promoted as expounding principles to achieve "success".
“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right."”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
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.
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 127
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Variant: 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.
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 127
Context: 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.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds”
Variant: The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
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Variant: Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice
As quoted in Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer (2003) by Barry Farber, p. 53
“A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits.”
Variant: A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.”
Napoleon Hill book The Law of Success
Source: The Law of Success (1928), p. 109
Variant: Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
As quoted in Quote-A-Quote: To Your Success Health Wealth & Happiness (2005) by Michael E. Ruge, p. 38
Context: 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.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 54
Context: We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to ORDER.
“Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich
Variant: Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
As quoted in Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer (2003) by Barry Farber, p. 60
“More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”
Variant: If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it...
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 54
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 112
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats”
Source: Law of Success: The 21st-Century Edition
“Awake, arise, and assert yourself, you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Source: Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success
“success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.” If”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich
Variant: Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
“Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world, itself.”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 87
“Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.”
A maxim of Hill's, specifically cited as such, in Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960), co-authored with W. Clement Stone, Ch. 14, p. 222.
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 38
