Napoleon Hill Quotes

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

I don't vocalise things that don't deserve attention.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I've learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don't always get it right.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well

I think it's just as important what you say no to as what you say yes to.

What we say no to is sometimes more important than what we say yes to.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

I know what to keep to myself. I know what I want to give up.

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

Choose, but don't want.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.