"If you must let someone down, be sure it isn’t the friend who helped you up when you were down."
Napoleon Hill
Author, Motivational Speaker
Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author known for his influential book 'Think and Grow Rich,' which focuses on the principles of success and personal achievement.
- Born
- October 26, 1883
- Died
- November 8, 1970
- Quotes
- 711
- Rank
- #319
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"Scars are wisdom in disguise."
"Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact."
"Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!"
"Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection."
"Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks."
"It is always your next move."
"Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves"."
"A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious."
"Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage"
"Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage."
"The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . ."
"The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be."
"If your environment is not to your liking, change it!"
"It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought."
"The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render."
"The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life."
"Your own mental attitude is your real boss."
"The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind."
"One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful"