Napoleon Hill Quotes

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Preach in your own house and to your own company

Each person is his own judge.

The truth needs to explain why you are the way you are, why you did what you did.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

I need to worry about the things that I am in control of.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.

Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

Think before you act and act on what you believe.

I have to stay on top of myself with honesty and be very forthcoming, quickly admit when I'm wrong, you know? I have a whole system that works for me, and that's part of my worldview now.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.