Top 100 The Hill Quotes
#1. If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.
Napoleon Hill
#2. Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day.
Harry Kemp
#3. The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it
Napoleon Hill
#4. Sigh for me, night-wind, in the noisy leaves of the oak. / I am tired. Sleep for me, heaven over the hill. / Shout for me, loudly and loudly, joyful sun, when you rise.
Wallace Stevens
#5. They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.
E. M. Forster
#6. Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.
Will Carleton
#7. Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
Napoleon Hill
#8. Peter was lost. More than lost, really. Spectacularly, hopelessly, "tell the search party not to get their hopes up" lost. If there was a contest for getting lost being held at that moment, Peter wouldn't win because he wouldn't be able to find it. That's how lost he was.
Mark Hill
#9. She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.
George R R Martin
#11. Once there was a moose, a very poor, thin, lonely moose who lived on a rocky hill where only bitter leaves grew and bushes with spiky branches. One day a red motor car drove past. In the backseat was
a grey gypsy dog wearing a gold earring.
Annie Proulx
#12. 'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.
Hilarie Burton
#13. To mourn is to feel a flower's slow death, hill bear. To bed a man is to recall the flower's bright glory.
Steven Erikson
#14. When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.
Danny Masterson
#15. I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortable driving it. It was taking up too much room, and I was afraid I was going to smash into something.
Dan Hill
#16. We were two miles from Bunker Hill, in the east part of town, in the section of factories and breweries. She
John Fante
#17. Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.
Muriel Lester
#18. The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.
Napoleon Hill
#19. Your body will not burn fat while your insulin level is high. It's focused on using glucose. But once all of the glucose and glycogen is used, the insulin level falls
James O. Hill
#20. History is not just a tale of men's making, but is a thing tied to the land. We call a hill by the name of a hero who died there, or name a river after a princess who fled beside its banks, and when the old names vanish, the stories go with them and the new names carry no reminder of the past.
Bernard Cornwell
#21. Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.
Reginald Hill
#22. You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind
Napoleon Hill
#23. With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.
Lauryn Hill
#24. Better to suffer the loneliness of the cold throne room than endure the isolation to be found within the crowds of facile courtiers.
Stuart Hill
#25. Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
Napoleon Hill
#26. It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.
Napoleon Hill
#27. You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.
James M. Cain
#28. It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself.
Dan Hill
#29. Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
Lauryn Hill
#30. Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
Dan Hill
#31. Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.
Napoleon Hill
#32. At the same time I hear a word so soft and quiet I wonder if he said it up on the hill and the wind has just now carried it down to me.
Ally Condie
#33. He may be King Redrought Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, Bear of the North, Defender of the Realm, Descendent of Thor, but to Thirrin he was just Dad, a man with a fondness for cats, a taste for comfy slippers and a huge laugh that could dent pewter at fifty paces.
Stuart Hill
#34. Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren't they working the same side of the street? Aren't the judge and the executioner on the same team?
Joe Hill
#35. A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word "impossible," and neatly clip it out of the book. That would not be an unwise thing for you to do.
Napoleon Hill
#36. Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Napoleon Hill
#37. Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
Damon Hill
#38. Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.
Napoleon Hill
#39. There is an expression here on Capitol Hill," Issa told me. "'Don't ever get between a member and a camera.'" That can be particularly harrowing in the case of Issa, who had purchased a T-shirt for Bardella that said: "It's all about me.
Mark Leibovich
#40. When he moves, he gives the impression of somebody leaning into the wind, or charging a hill, as if the world with all of its troubles can be tamed if only enough force and energy are brought to bear.
Michael Ian Black
#41. Like, I'm a big fan of films from the '70s, like Cassavetes and things, where they just keep the dialogue really loose and just kind of roll, you know what I mean?
Jody Hill
#42. No one could ride a horse if the horse discovered its real strength. The same thing is true for people.
Napoleon Hill
#43. We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..
Susan Hill
#44. The seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream.
Walter Scott
#46. Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
Barbara Mikulski
#47. The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.
Napoleon Hill
#48. There are objects you may desire but cannot explain. There are objects that are not nouns, there are actions that are not verbs. There are things we want that exist at the edge of the forest, at the rim of the ocean, just over the hill, just out of sight.
Charles Yu
#49. She and I are as far apart as the stars in the sky and the soles of my feet." Detective Sean Ryan ~Deception on Sable Hill by Shelley Gray
Shelley Gray
#50. Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter! ... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!
Mary Mapes Dodge
#51. I was twenty one years old and I thought, here I am my health is at risk, my life is going to go down hill from here and I really had to have a look in the mirror to see what the cause was of that and the cause of that was me.
John Assaraf
#52. [On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.
Andrea Mitchell
#53. The emotion of sex is an "irresistible force," against which there can be no such opposition as an "immovable body." When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a super power for action.
Napoleon Hill
#54. The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
Napoleon Hill
#55. The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#56. crimson. A faint blue haze rested on the eastern hill, over which a great, pale, round moon was just floating up like a silver bubble. They were
L.M. Montgomery
#57. There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'
Hill Harper
#58. Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political clout on Capitol Hill because of its alliance with the railroads and coal-burning utilities.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#59. Just before the top of the hill she stopped, breathed deeply, and tried to muster her scattered sense of calm, like a bride checking her veil in the last mirror before the aisle.
Edward St. Aubyn
#60. It's the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.
Nathan Hill
#61. Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.
Fred Reed
#62. I ran very fast in the wrong direction.
Lauryn Hill
#63. The big white house glowed on the hill above them, tranquil in the afternoon light, the big red spruce behind it a looming but benign presence; not for the first time, he felt that the tree was somehow guarding the house - and in his present fragile mental state, found that notion a comfort.
Diana Gabaldon
#64. In truth, Jude suspected that Danny had no particular musical preferences, no strong likes or dislikes, and that the radio was just background sound, the auditory equivalent of wallpaper.
Joe Hill
#65. I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art.
"That's because it already starved to death.
Joe Hill
#66. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun.
Charles Bukowski
#67. What shall we do there?" "Climb up the hill to the old fort and look at the little wriggling gold snakes, and watch the lizards sun themselves.
Kate Chopin
#68. Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no hall-way compromise.
Napoleon Hill
#69. One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.
Archibald Hill
#70. It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.
Susan Hill
#71. I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.
Jonah Hill
#72. Visualization Of, and Belief in Attainment of Desire: The Second Step toward Riches
Napoleon Hill
#73. I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.
Faith Hill
#74. Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.
Napoleon Hill
#75. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
The houses are all gone under the sea.
The dancers are all gone under the hill.
T. S. Eliot
#76. All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.
Napoleon Hill
#77. The goal of living a life of faith is never to go against God, but to go with Him. It isn't just about getting what you want, it's about seeking God's best, then trusting Him with His answer." - Linda Evans Shepherd
Cherie Hill
#78. I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
Faith Hill
#79. God, he was going to destroy her. But maybe for the first time in her life, she'd found a man worth shattering for.
Joey W. Hill
#81. There's always a little decency in the worst places ... and always a little secret selfishness in the best.
Joe Hill
#82. He was overwhelmed by the love he felt for her; tears filled his eyes and the ache in his throat ran deep into his chest. He ran down the hill to the river, through the light rain until th pain faded like fog mist. He stood and watched the rainy dawn, and he knew he would find her again.
Leslie Marmon Silko
#83. Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.
Napoleon Hill
#84. Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.
Napoleon Hill
#85. Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
Dan Hill
#86. Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.
Napoleon Hill
#87. The man who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the man who develops into leadership most rapidly. An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader. The
Napoleon Hill
#88. Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best.
Steven Hill
#89. People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.
Lee Smith
#90. Pain. You overwhelm me," he said quietly. "And every time I see you or think of you, I can't grab a brush fast enough. I thought I couldn't paint you, but it turns out I've been painting you all along, from the beginning, before I even knew you.
Joey W. Hill
#91. I know I have a big, big head. Hats, a lot of times, do not fit me. What is the average head size? Maybe like 16 inches. From the center of my forehead around to other side might be a foot, give or take four inches.
Dule Hill
#92. Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
Dan Hill
#93. My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.
Susan Hill
#94. I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."
Lauryn Hill
#95. Women's evolution unfolded through stages in the last 100 years. The first stage was "Wonder Woman," an idealized figure who functioned like
Sylvia Becker-Hill
#96. Under the pitiful misapprehension that it would make them "better," these Hill Negroes were breaking their backs trying to imitate white people.
Malcolm X
#97. I don't claim to be some Aaron Sorkin expert, but it is like a Camelot. His shows are a place where people are trying to reach their highest potential. And I think we miss that sometimes. If I got a chance to do 'The Newsroom,' I would have done it yesterday.
Dule Hill
#98. Remember that your dominating thoughts attract,
through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most
convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon.
Napoleon Hill
#99. There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.
Napoleon Hill
#100. He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed to exist in a hazily recalled past, to have been left behind long ago.
Joe Hill
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