Napoleon Hill Quotes

Mental inertia is death.

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.

Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.

The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Habit is a great deadener.

History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

Long, continuous periods of peace and prosperity have always brought about the physical, mental and moral deterioration of the individual.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

I'm kind of lethargic in real life.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.