Napoleon Hill Quotes

No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

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• The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Why
  • Kids

• As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Art
  • Government

• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Broadway
  • Toy

• Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Always

• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Patience

• I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Work
  • War
  • Day

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • You
  • Change
  • Stop

• Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.

  

  Gallant
  • Something
  • Loved
  • Very

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Mom

• Africa is the future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Future
  • Africa

• Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Power
  • Clean

• Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Live
  • Sales

• By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

  

  O. Henry
  • King
  • Rights
  • New Deal

• Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Help
  • Problems
  • Blame

• What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Great

• To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • People
  • Life
  • Small

• So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Long

• It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Man
  • Words
  • Harmony