Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hillwas an American author and impresario who cribbed freely from the new thought tradition of the previous century to become an early producer of personal-success literature. At the time of Hill's death in 1970, his best-known work, Think and Grow Richhad sold 20 million copies. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to increasing one's income. Most of his books were promoted as expositing principles to achieve "success". Hill was an advisor to two presidents of the United...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth26 October 1883
CityPound, VA
CountryUnited States of America
Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.
The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind.
A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.
Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Most misfortunes are the result of misused time.
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.