Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.
Skepticism is the beginning of faith.
It takes a long time to turn a big country around.
I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed…
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
The battle is now joined on many fronts. We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter; and we will not fail.
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as…
The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been 'great changes.'
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for…
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the…
When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection…
A strict master will not have understanding sons.
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face -- forever.
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep…
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretzky & The Pope combined!
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
When the president does it that means that it is not illegal.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Create each day anew.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general good. Lies are…
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.