Napoleon Hill Quotes

When you visualize, then you materialize. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

the best people have the rottenest luck

The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance? I know poeple who'll hear about the people who died, and will say that it was God's will. I know people who'll say it was bad luck. And then there's my personal favorite: They were just in the wrong place at hte wrong time. Then again, you could say the same thing about me, couldn't you?

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

We create our own reality because of our inner emotional - our subconscious - reality draws us into those situations from which we learn. We experience it as strange things happening to us (and) we meet the people in our lives that we need to learn from. And so we create these circumstances at a very deep metaphysical and subconscious level.

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.