Napoleon Hill quotes (American author, 1883-1970)
"Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself."
—Emerson
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
—Dalai Lama
"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
—Sir Josiah Stamp
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
—Dale Carnegie
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
—Albert Einstein
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
—George Bernard Shaw
"Imagination is everything; it is the preview of life's forthcoming attractions."
—Albert Einstein
"Of the Good in you I can speak, but not of the Evil. For what is Good-tortured by it's own hunger and thirst? When Good is hungry, it seeks food, even in dark caves, and when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters."
—Kahlil Gibran
"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well."
—Elisabeth Kubler Ross
"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."
—Oprah Winfrey
"You often meet your destiny on the road you've taken to avoid it."
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
—George Bernard Shaw
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."
—Johann von Goethe
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart."
—Helen Keller
"We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future."
—Lester Levinson
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
—Winston Churchill