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Napoleon Hill Quotes

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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

Napoleon Hill QuotesEvery adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

Motivational Career Change Quotes

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Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. – Marian Wright Edelman

The best work never was and never will be done for money. – John Ruskin

My father always told me, ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. – Jim Fox

For many people a job is more than an income – it’s an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life. – Paul Clitheroe

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. – Kahlil Gibran

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. – Orison Swett Marden

A sobering thought: What if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? – Jane Wagner

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. – James Matthew Barrie

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. – Napoleon Hill

It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. – Annie Gottlier

Choose your love, love your choice. – Thomas S. Monson

What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it. – Lee Iacocca

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all – Mahatma Ghandi

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns

I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. – Robert H. Schuller

Top 10 Famous Quotes

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1. “I want to know God’s thoughts… the rest are details.” – Albert Einstein

2. “100% of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.” – Wayne Gretzky

3. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” – M.K. Gandhi

4. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” – Dr. Napoleon Hill

5. “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

6. “You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.” – Zig Ziglar

7. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain

8. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain

9. “Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson

10. “I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.” – Blaise Pascal

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11. “Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice

12. “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

20 Great Inspirational Quotes

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1. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

2. “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

3. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland

4. “If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.” – George Eliot

5. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

6. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

7. “What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

8. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

9. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca

10. “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – George Eliot

11. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

12. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

13. “The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.” – Unknown

14. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

15. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

16. “When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” – H. Jackson Brown

27. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

18. “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” – Richard Koch

19. “Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong” – Brian White

20. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Personal Growth Quotes

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Big doors swing on little hinges.” – W. Clement Stone

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill

“We find comfort among those who agree with us– growth among those who don’t.” – Frank A Clark

” Sometimes success is better measured in smiles received, giggles heard, and hands held, than in dollars earned, deadlines met, and kilos shed.” – Mike Dooley

“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.” – Lao Tzu

” Forget the past; use the present to plan for the future.” – Refilwe Henny Muremi

“It not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.” – Anthony Robbins

“The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” – Socrates

“If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.” – Lord Chesterfield

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.” – Plato

“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” – Doug Firebaugh

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” – Denis Waitley

“Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – John Maxwell

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.” – Napoleon Hill

“Insist on yourself. Never imitate.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison

“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.” – La Rochefoucauld

“Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.” – Swedish Proverb

“You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.” –Albert Einstein

Never Give Up Quotes

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Never Give Up Quotes will make your day better. I promise!

Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself. – Sidney Sheldon

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. – W. Clement Stone

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. – Zig Ziglar

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. – Napoleon Hill

Winners Never Quit, and Quitters Never Win. – Vince Lombardi

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. – Henry Ford

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. – Albert Schweitzer

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. – Anonymous

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. – Ross Perot

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can’t are both right. – Henry Ford

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. – Rabindranath Tagore

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. – Rabindranath Tagore

Motivational Quotes for Overcoming Failure

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Before success comes in any man’s life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. – Napoleon Hill

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. – Roger Crawford

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. – Ernest Hemingway

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. – James A. Michener

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. – George E. Woodberry

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. – Josephus Daniels

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. – Robert Galvin

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden

Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing. – H. Stanley Judd

Life Mottos

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Life Mottos to Live By

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

Attitude is everything. – Anonymous

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to travel well than to arrive. – The Buddha

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dance lightly with life. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is as easy or as hard as I think it is. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life’s burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I don’t have the power to make life “fair,” but I do have the power to make life joyful. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life Mottos about Courage, Taking Action, and Persevering

Do it Now! – Napoleon Hill

Let’s Roll. – Todd Beamer

Whatever it takes! – Anonymous

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. – Anonymous

Actions speak louder than words. – Anonymous

Do or do not, there is no try. – Yoda (Star Wars movie)

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

No one knows what he can do until he tries. – Publilius Syrus

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t ever give up. – Anonymous

Never Quit. – Anonymous

Winners never quit and quitters never win! – Vince Lombardi

Practice makes perfect. – Anonymous

Seize the day (Carpe Diem) – ancient Roman

Keep the Faith. – Anonymous

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Hard work pays off. – Anonymous

Roll with the punches. – Anonymous

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – Chinese proverb

Life Mottos about Self-Respect

Above all to thine own self be true. – William Shakespeare

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland

Know thyself. – Socrates

Believe in yourself. – Anonymous

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore H. White

Life Mottos about Purpose, Dreams, and Setting Goals

Be the best that you can be. – Anonymous

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

We must become the change we wish to see in the world. – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way. – Mary Anne Radmacher

Choose with no regret. – Mary Anne Radmacher

Reach for the stars. – Anonymous

Follow Your Dreams. – Anonymous

Live Your Dreams.- Les Brown

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. – Robert Byrne

Life is what you make it. – Anonymous

Motivational Quotes

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“Success is what you attract by the person you become” – Jim Rohn

“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking” – John Kenneth Galbraith

“Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

“To earn more, you must learn more.” – Brian Tracy

“Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.” – Christian D. Larson

“Your life only gets better, when you get better” – Brian Tracy

“The porr and middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want.” –Anonymous

“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.” – Brian Tracy

“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard B. Sheridan

“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.” – Albert Camus

“It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with what you have.” – Unknown

“It matters not what person is born, but who they choose to be.” – Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Most misfortunes are the results of misused time” – Napoleon Hill

“We don’t see things the way they are. We see things the way we are.” – Talmud

“The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is dissapointment.” – William Arthur Ward

“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.” – Napoleon Hill

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale

Top 15 Inspirational Quotes

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1. If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. –Walt Disney

2. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau

3. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions-as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. – Friedrich Nietzsche

5. Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

6. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. – Mahatma Gandhi

7. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect- Mark Twain

8. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

9. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. – Robert Frost

10. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. – Swami Vivekananda

11. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else- Winston Churchill

12. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

13. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.-Napoleon Hill

14. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.-Theodore Roosevelt

15. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.-Roy Goodman

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. –Eleanor Roosevelt