Napoleon Hill Quotes

Men are victims of their own impulses.

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.