Quotation Collection

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

• ambition

The real problem with government is not the deficit. The real problem with government is the amount of our money that it spends. Milton Friedman

• government
• taxes

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers. Napoleon Hill

• leadership

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan. Napoleon Hill

• planning
• leadership

The world does not pay men for that which they "know". It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do. Napoleon Hill

• service
• leadership

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Napoleon Hill

• self control
• discipline

Failure cannot cope with persistence. Napoleon Hill

• failure
• persistence

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing. Napoleon Hill

• chance
• risk

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 Hill

• enthusiasm
• job

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

• wealth
• service

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others. Napoleon Hill

• decisiveness

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through "opinions" and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through "opinions" or ridicule. Napoleon Hill

• self esteem
• criticism
• associates

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent. Napoleon Hill

• thought

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Napoleon Hill

• desire
• achievement

Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage. Napoleon Hill

• fear
• habit
• persistence

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this. Eleanor Roosevelt

• imitation
• uniqueness

Keep in mind that you are always saying 'no' to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it. Stephen Covey

• time management
• priorities

Style is being yourself, but on purpose. Patricia Fripp

• fashion

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Samuel Johnson

• sadness

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Francis Bacon

• service
• habit

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• excuses
• possibility

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism. Napoleon Hill

• friends
• criticism
• family
• associates

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way. Napoleon Hill

• duty
• dreams

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. Napoleon Hill

• criticism
• risk
• chance

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage. Napoleon Hill

• fear
• criticism

The only "break" anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made "break". Napoleon Hill

• luck
• fortune

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence. Napoleon Hill

• wealth
• plans
• planning
• persistence
• money

One who has loved truly can never lose entirely. Napoleon Hill

• love

You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form. Napoleon Hill

• subconscious

Your subconscious mind functions voluntarily, whether you make any effort to influence it or not. Napoleon Hill

• subconscious

Thoughts of fear and poverty, and all negative thoughts serve as stimuli to your subconscious mind, unless you master these impulses and give it more desirable food upon which it may feed. Napoleon Hill

• subconscious

A wise man should have money in his head but not in his heart. Jonathan Swift

• money

If you fail to plant desires in your subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts which reach it as the result of your neglect. Napoleon Hill

• thought
• subconscious

The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with "feeling" or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind. Napoleon Hill

• thought
• emotion
• subconscious

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci

• simplicity

People don’t have rights to jobs and they don’t have rights to medical care or rights to education. What you have is a right to your life. That’s what you have. We’re told that’s not compassionate. But if you look at all of history you’ll find out that the most uncompassionate system of all is socialism and welfarism. Ron Paul

• freedom
• welfare
• socialism

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture. Norman Vincent Peale

• subconscious
• success
• positive thinking

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Nelson Mandela

• defeat
• persistence

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. James Russell Lowell

• self respect

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. John Wooden

• success

How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort. John Wooden

• sports
• victory
• preparation

Do those things necessary to bring forth your personal best and don't lose sleep worrying about the competition. John Wooden

• preparation
• worry
• sports

When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner. John Wooden

• sports
• effort

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. Thomas Alva Edison

• fun
• success
• work

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. Alan Greenspan

• integrity
• business
• honesty

Man must search for what is right and let happiness come on its own. Johann Pestalozzi

• happiness
• principle

Ideas must work though the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• ideas
• action

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. Anonymous

• bravery
• courage