Napoleon Hill Quotes

Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

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• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Great
  • Opinion
  • Popular

• The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Mystery

• Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

  

  Tacitus
  • Things
  • All Things
  • Rome

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Food
  • Environment
  • Care

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Duties

• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Me
  • Best
  • Actor

• My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Together
  • Thoughts
  • Company

• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Team
  • Leadership

• It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Kids
  • Risk

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Family
  • Faith

• It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • People
  • Country
  • True

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Mind
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Business
  • Never
  • Person

• I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Look
  • Internet
  • Try

• We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Look
  • Terrorism
  • Group

• That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Night

• Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Together
  • Earth

• Changes your life, getting into the Hall of Fame. For the rest of my life, I'll be known as Hall of Famer George Kell.

  

  George Kell
  • Life
  • Rest

• If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Yourself

• Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women