Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Hill

There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real.

Napoleon Hill

If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you will never have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Napoleon Hill

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.

Napoleon Hill

I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality, therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.

Napoleon Hill

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

Napoleon Hill

The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.

Napoleon Hill

Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

Napoleon Hill

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

Napoleon Hill

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Napoleon Hill

Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.

Napoleon Hill

The dominating thoughts of my mind... will transform themselves into physical reality

Napoleon Hill

Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

Napoleon Hill

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

Liz Carpenter

What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

Lloyd Kaufman

I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.

Lynda Barry

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.

Lynda Barry

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

Lyndon B. Johnson

So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.

Lucy Walker

I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.

Lucy Walker

With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

Ludwig Quidde

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

Lucian

The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.

Lucas Till

Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.

Lucian Freud

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.