101 Quotes from Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, is one of the best selling finance books ever written.

It’s helped millions learn to build wealth and improve their knowledge of money.

Here are 101 of my favourite quotes from Think And Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill.

1. Failure cannot cope with persistence.

2. There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.

3. You can make your life what you want it to be.

4. There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

5. Both success and failure are largely the results of habit.

6. A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits.

7. All achievement, and all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

8. To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilisation all that it has of value.

9. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases, and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure.

10. Ninety-eight out of every hundred people working for wages today, are in the positions they hold, because they lacked the definiteness of decision to plan a definite position, and the knowledge of how to choose an employer.

11. Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

12. Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

13. If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it, therefore, you will readily recognise the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

14. Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

15. Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

16. Before you even start to negotiate for a readjustment of your salary in your present position, or to seek employment elsewhere, be sure that you are worth more than you receive.

17. No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

18. There is no substitute for persistence.

19. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.

20. There is but one dependable method of accumulating, and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

21. Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ship and cut all sources of retreat.

22. All who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they arrive.

23. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

24. You’ve got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize.

25. Real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are.

26. The way of success is the key of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

27. Your subconscious mind recognises and acts only upon thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.

28. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be attracted.

29. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

30. We refuse to believe that which we don’t understand.

31. It’s your responsibility to make sure that positive emotion constitutes the dominating influence of your mind.

32. Your subconscious mind recognises and acts only upon thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.

33. 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.

34. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

35. Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.

36. The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling.

37. More than five hundred of the most successful men told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

38. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

39. Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth.

40. Your achievement can be no greater than your plans are sound.

41. If you don’t conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

42. Every failure carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater reward.

43. If you do not see riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

44. The cause of the depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing.

45. 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.

46. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

47. If you’re influenced by “opinions” when you reach decisions, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

48. If you are of those who believe that hard work and honesty, alone, will bring riches, perish the thought!

49. Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth.

50. Nature has endowed man with absolute control over but one thing, and that is thought.

51. There is no other road to genius than through voluntary self effort.

52. The time will never be “just right”.

53. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success.

54. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish.

55. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.

56. Most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature.

57. Ideas are the beginning point of all fortunes. Ideas are the products of imagination.

58. Success come to those who become success conscious.

59. Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desire, through constant persistence.

60. Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act for yourself.

61. Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

62. Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.

63. No one is ready for a thing, until they believe they can acquire it.

64. Before we can master an enemy, we must know its name, its habits, and its place of abode.

65. Employers give greater consideration to employees who take home study courses. They have learned, from experience, that any person who has the ambition to give up a part of his spare time to study at home has in him these qualities which make for leadership.

66. Persistence is an essential factor in the procedure of transmuting desire into its monetary equivalent.

67. You are the master of your destiny.

68. All thoughts which have been emotionalised, begin immediately to transmute themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.

69. A man whose mind is filled with fear not only destroys his own chances of intelligent action, but he transmits these destructive vibrations to the minds of all who come in contact with him, and destroys, also, their chances.

70. You either control your mind or it controls you.

71. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.

72. Neglecting to broaden views has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

73. The starting point of all achievement is desire.

74. Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the ‘other self” is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.

75. Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

76. 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.

77. We are what we are because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimulus of our daily environment.

78. More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self.

79. Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they don’t strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

80. Make your desires clear, and to reduce them into writing.

81. Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it’s organised into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

82. If you try and fail, make another effort and still another, until you succeed.

83. Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application towards some worthy end.

84. Knowledge will not attract money, unless it’s organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.

85. 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.

86. Only those who become ‘money conscious’ ever accumulate great riches. ‘Money consciousness’ means that the mind has become so thoroughly saturated with the desire for money that can see one’s self already in possession of it.

87. The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

88. The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis, through which they are introduced to their “other selves”.

89. Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

90. Man can create anything which he can imagine.

91. Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin. This, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.

92. Where failure is experienced, it is the individual, not the method, which has failed.

93. The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs.

94. It is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.

95. Man’s only limitation, within reason, lies in his development and use of his imagination.

96. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a quitter.

97. The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

98. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

99. Take no one into your confidence, except the members of your ‘Master Mind’ group, and be sure in your selection of this group, only those who will be in complete sympathy and harmony with your purpose.

100. Love is, without question, life’s greatest experience.

101. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

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