Napoleon Hill Quotes

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

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

You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

I don't have any ambition.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

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

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.