Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Hill

The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

Napoleon Hill

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

Napoleon Hill

Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

Napoleon Hill

A fearless man thrives on far horizons.

Napoleon Hill

You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

Napoleon Hill

That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hopes and plans.

Napoleon Hill

Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.

Napoleon Hill

No man can become a permanent success without taking others along with him.

Napoleon Hill

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

Napoleon Hill

Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.

Napoleon Hill

Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.

Napoleon Hill

The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

Napoleon Hill

The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.

Napoleon Hill

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

Napoleon Hill

God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT!

Napoleon Hill

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

Napoleon Hill

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil

Napoleon Hill

The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.

Napoleon Hill

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.

Napoleon Hill

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

Napoleon Hill

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

Napoleon Hill

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

Napoleon Hill

An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others. –

Napoleon Hill

Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.

Napoleon Hill

Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.

Napoleon Hill

A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

Napoleon Hill

I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.