Napoleon Hill Quotes

Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.

I've seen countless situations where I've been around him where he always does the right thing, 100 percent of the time. Tom Izzo would never do the wrong thing. And anybody that thinks other than that, they don't know Tom Izzo. I know him.

I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

Character is that which can do without success.

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

I'd like to be known for my character.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.