Napoleon Hill Quotes

Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

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• Accomplish something every day of your life.

  

  Walter Annenberg
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• I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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• Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.

  

  Jack Keane
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• The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.

  

  Larry Brown
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• In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Up
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• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • History
  • Generation
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• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
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  • Look

• I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Independent

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Long
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• All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Value
  • Happiness

• I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Shirts
  • Drives
  • Jackets

• I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • High
  • President
  • Hands

• I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Good
  • Great
  • Heart

• From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

  

  Ram Dass
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• Novels are longer than life.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Novels
  • Longer

• There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Here
  • Countries
  • Advantages

• I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • People
  • Heart
  • Luck

• ...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Christ
  • Christianity
  • Professors

• If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.

  

  Pamela Sue Martin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Truck

• How to get rid of the greed is the point and to get rid of the greed is that if I buy something - for whom should I buy this one, for whom should I buy? Ah, this will be all right for another friend of mine, like that. If you train your mind on these lines, not for yourself, but for others, then you'll be amazed this greed will run away and you'll have joy.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Running
  • Wisdom

• Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Want
  • Wisdom
  • Knowing