The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.
First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.
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.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.
If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.
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.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.
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.
Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.
Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
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