Napoleon Hill Quotes Pt.2
Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Self Confidence Quotes
It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
-W.C. Fields
If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent Van Gogh
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
-Author Unknown
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
-Peter T. Mcintyre
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
-Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969
Mark Twain Quotes
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
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole life – time, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain
Oprah Winfrey Quotes
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
Oprah Winfrey
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
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Brother Quotes
My little brother, will you ever grow up….I hope not!
-Catherine Pulsifer
Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.
-Proverb
A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you.
-Proverb
To the outside world we all grow old.
But not to brothers and sisters.
We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts.
We share private family jokes.
We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys.
We live outside the touch of time.
-Clara Ortega
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother. Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.
-Anna Quindlan
There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.
- Astrid Alauda
Family Quotes
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
-Spanish Proverb
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
-George Santayana, The Life of Reason
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
-Marquise de Sévigné
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
-Anthony Brandt
Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.
-Author Unknown
Mother Quotes
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
-Proverb
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.
-Mildred B. Vermont
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
-Tenneva Jordan
A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
-Peter De Vries
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
-Rajneesh
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
-Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
-Oprah Winfrey
Leadership Quotes
Leadership is action, not position.
-Donald H. McGannon
You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
-Gene Mauch
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
-Elaine Agather
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
-Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
-Albert Schweitzer
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
-Robert Jarvik
A leader is a dealer in hope.
-Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
-Tom Peters
Laughter Quotes
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-E.E. Cummings
Laughter is an instant vacation.
-Milton Berle
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
-Woody Allen
Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.
-Author Unknown
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
-Victor Borge
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
-Yiddish Proverb
A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.
-Raymond Hitchcock
