There is no substitute for honesty... there is NO HOPE for the person who is dishonest...
— Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich (1938)
Use itGS4: no substitute for honesty.
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Napoleon Hill quotes for UPSC
13 sourced quotes by Napoleon Hill on resilience & perseverance, youth, dreams & ambition, integrity & honesty, relationships & friendship, work, excellence & success, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
— Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich (1938)
Use itGS4: wealth and position endure only on truth and justice; ethical business.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. The most essential step in the marketing of personal services is that of selecting an occupation into which you can throw yourself wholeheartedly.
— Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich (1938)
Use itInterview: choose work you can give yourself to wholeheartedly.
Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
— Napoleon HillA maxim of Hill's, specifically cited as such, in Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960), co-authored with W. Clement Stone, Ch.
Use itLife: every adversity carries the seed of a benefit.
Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. Millions of men go through life in misery and poverty, because they lack a sound plan through which to accumulate a fortune.
— Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich (1938)
Use itLife: temporary defeat means a faulty plan, not a lost cause.
The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
— Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich (1938)
Use itLife: struggle builds strength — the oak in the open.
Procrastination is one of the most common causes of failure.... Procrastination stands within the shadow of every human being, waiting his opportunity to spoil one's chances of success.
— Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich (1938)
Use itLife: procrastination as a common cause of failure.
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.
— Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich (1938)
Use itLife: rise above an unfortunate environment and build your own life.
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 HillThink & Grow Rich, January 1963, p. 150
Use itLife: we absorb the habits and thinking of those we associate with.
Inability to cooperate with others. More people lose their positions and their big opportunities in life, because of this fault, than for all other reasons combined.
— Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich (1938)
Use itInterview/GS4: inability to cooperate costs more careers than any other fault.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.
Use itLife: what the mind conceives and believes, it can achieve.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
— Napoleon HillAs quoted in Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer (2003) by Barry Farber, p. 53
Use itLife: cherish dreams as blueprints of achievement.
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
— Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich (1938)
Use itLife: aiming high costs no more effort than accepting misery.