Napoleon Hill Quotes

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

Napoleon Hill

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• Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'

  

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• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  

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• I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

  

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• I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

  

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• As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

  

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• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

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• Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

  

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• Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

  

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• And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

  

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• I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.

  

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• Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

  

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• I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.

  

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• We had a hung jury, ... and instead, he used (the holdout juror's) illness as an excuse to dismiss her from the jury.

  

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• If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

  

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• Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Goal
  • Obstacles