Napolean Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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It is never too late to be what we might have been
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Have you checked the children lately ?
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
We rob banks.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Fortune favors the brave.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
I am your number one fan.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
We're sisters under the same mink.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Death is something not only mysterious but a great act of purgation. That which continues in a repetitive pattern is degeneration. The pattern may vary according to country, according to climate, according to circumstance, but it is a pattern. Moving in any pattern brings about a continuity and that continuity is part of the degenerating process of man. When there is an ending of continuity, something new can take place. One can understand it instantly if one has understood the whole movement of thought, of fear, hate, love - then one can grasp the significance, instantly, of what death is.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Whatever you are be a good one.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
The giving of love is an education in itself.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.