Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.
– Napoleon Hill
Related Quotes:
- Without trust there’s no cooperation. And without cooperation there’s no progress. History stops. – Rick Yancey
- It is not about proving anything to the world. It is all about proving your capabilities to yourself and stretching your own boundaries. – Manoj Arora
- The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Great minds believe they will succeed.Average minds doubt they can succeed.Small minds don’t even try to succeed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A Muslim just follows Allah. Sunni-Shiah? That’s farga, the groups-”Allah discourages this in the Quran, you know, never ever form the groups. – Michael Muhammad Knight
- …most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same. – Idries Shah
- Learn more than others. Work more than others. Succeed more than others. Give more than others. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. – Erich Fromm
- LOVE of others is the appreciation of one’s self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy. – Mina Loy
- LOVE of others is the appreciation of one’s self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy. – Mina Loy
- war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. – Napoleon Hill
- Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it. – Napoleon Hill
- The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. – Napoleon Hill
- You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions. – Napoleon Hill
- When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. – Napoleon Hill
- It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. – Napoleon Hill
- The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind. – Napoleon Hill
- Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. – Napoleon Hill
- Meet struggle and master it, says nature, and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all your needs. – Napoleon Hill
- Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle! – Napoleon Hill
- Face the facts squarely. Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies. – Napoleon Hill
- Desire is the starting point of all achievement. – Napoleon Hill
- A philosophy a system of principles that will guide your thoughts and actions. – Napoleon Hill
- Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. – Napoleon Hill
- If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
- There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought. – Napoleon Hill
- Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought. – Napoleon Hill
- Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate. – Napoleon Hill
- Napoleon Hill also rehashed ‘thoughts create things’ when he wrote Think & Grow Rich in 1937 (although it had taken him 25 years to complete). – Stephen Richards
- Fears are nothing more than a state of mind – Napoleon Hill
- Whatever your mind can conceive and can believe, it can achieve – Napoleon Hill
- Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end. – Napoleon Hill
- Your big opportunity may be right where you are. – Napoleon Hill
- Opportunity…it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. – Napoleon Hill
- If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge. – Napoleon Hill
- Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. – Napoleon Hill
- Technical people don’t make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. – Vernor Vinge
- A high self-esteem can quickly deteriorate into egotism, arrogance, and an over-confidence that can backfire and turn people off. – Susan C Young
- A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. – Jane Austen
- It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a fact. – Shirley Chisholm