A Quote by Napoleon Hill

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.

Napoleon Hill

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Napoleon Hill
American - Author
October 26, 1883 - November 8, 1970

I'm pretty good at golf and I enjoy trying to get better and learning without the stress on your body, without having to be in incredible physical shape.

Mardy Fish

I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

Arthur Ashe

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

Shunryu Suzuki

Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.

Irene Dunne

Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails!

Thomas Russell

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

Alice Walker

You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.

Frederick William Robertson

It's bad enough on a first date trying not to say something dumb without having three Secret Service guys with you.

Steven Ford

Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?

Jonathan Haidt

But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.

Annia Ciezadlo

I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.

Ziggy Marley

Tamaki: You're the one giving up without even trying.

Bisco Hatori

In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.