Napoleon Hill Desire Quotations

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.

Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.

There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.

The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.

Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth

You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.

You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.

O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.

Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.