Napoleon Hill Quotes

Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

A great man’s actions are determined, if not foreordained, by his character.

What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.

I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.

Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

We are what our thoughts have made us

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).

We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

What a person thinks about determines what he is.

Our thoughts make us what we are.

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.