Napoleon Hill Quotes

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

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• Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Why

• The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Done

• A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Truth
  • Will
  • Compass

• When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Crazy

• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Community
  • Paris
  • Immigrants

• You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Why
  • Me

• Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Happiness
  • Memories

• The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Pain
  • Problems
  • Start

• If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • High
  • Leader
  • Ambition

• If you're sick, watch funny movies.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Funny
  • Movies
  • Sick

• Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Positive

• Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

  

  Major Owens
  • Important
  • Education
  • Technology

• I do everything on my phone!

  

  Aja Naomi King

• If I could I would kiss his wrists.If I had half the courage to face his pain.

  

  Masiela Lusha
  • Pain
  • Courage
  • Kiss

• A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Messages

• National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

  

  Richard Perle
  • Government
  • Obligation
  • Sovereignty

• My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Beautiful
  • Kid
  • Consciousness

• I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Girl
  • Weird
  • Beach

• His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgettin' What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out He's chokin', how, everybody's jokin' now The clocks run out, times up, over, blaow!

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Running
  • Forget
  • Rap

• It's fun. If I ever think, 'Oh God, I've got to go to work today,' I'd hang it up. Being involved with young kids, I think it definitely does do something for you. I'd rather do that than go play bingo or something.

  

  Norm Parker
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Play

• Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Burn
  • Island
  • Boats