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Napoleon Hill was an American author known for his book 'Think and Grow Rich'. This book combines elements of psychology, philosophy, and success literature, aiming to help readers achieve personal and professional success. Hill's life and work experiences provided rich material for his writing, and his works continue to have a profound impact on the field of personal development to this day.

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“You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, unless you can work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it.”

Desire Faith Wealth

Book:Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich

“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”

“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.”

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

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Book:The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity

Source: The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity

“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.”

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Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”

Source: The Law of Success

“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.”

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“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.”

Knows Mind May Made Wanted Desire Literature Battle Shouting

Book:The Law of Success

Source: The Law of Success

“Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.”

Writing Moments Form Desire Given Goal Powerful Plans Planning Concrete Intangible Inspiring Writing Desire To Win Planning For Success Preparation And Planning

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

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

Men War Desire Individual Grows Gains Advantage Fellows Expenses Anti War Antiwar World War I Fellow Man Peace War No War World War 1 Just War Desire To Win

Book:The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

“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.”

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Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.”

Firsts Desire Subconscious Dominating

Book:Think & Grow Rich

Source: Think & Grow Rich

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.”

Men Mind Believe Desire Strong Achieve Achievement Starting Rooted Starting Point

Author:Napoleon Hill

“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.”

Ifs Want Desire Objects Difficulty Determined Obsession Acquire Convince Convincing Convincing Yourself

Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection

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

People Desire Wish Wealth Plans Riches Burning Definite Burning Desire

Author:Napoleon Hill

“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.”

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Author:Napoleon Hill

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

Desire Purpose Determine Factors Purpose Of Life Definite

Author:Napoleon Hill

“They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.”

People Men May Helping Desire Mistake Trouble Statements

Author:Napoleon Hill

“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.”

Firsts Humans Reality Desire Imagination Human Beings Concentration Transformed

Book:The Law of Success

Source: The Law of Success

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

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Author:Napoleon Hill

“Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.”

Knows Desire Impossible

Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection

“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.”

Inspirational Desire Purpose Powerful Power Burning Persistence Burning Desire

Author:Napoleon Hill

“Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.”

Dream Action Desire Inspirational Life Concrete Dreams Come True

Author:Napoleon Hill

“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.”

Reality Desire Strong Powerful Accepting Principles Impossible Strange Failure Impulse Chemistry Never Giving Up Wraps Strong Desire

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine”

People Men Made Desire Nations Cities Encouragement Defeat Ships Conquer Nicotine

Author:Napoleon Hill

“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.”

Dream Desire Born Ambition Starting Burning Indifference Dreamer Laziness Starting Point Burning Desire Lack Of Ambition

Book:Napoleon Hill Collection

Source: Napoleon Hill Collection

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

Ifs Desire Opinion Deep Thought

Book:The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity

Source: The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity

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

Persons Desire Impossible Endure Nothing Is Impossible

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“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.”

People Ifs May Desire Chance Cases Failing Criticism Stronger Refuse Take A Chance Desire For Success

Book:Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich

“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.”

Men Years Desire Order Turns Winning Willing Wheels Stakes Years Of Experience

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“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.”

Matter Lasts Desire Strong Achievement Scientist Starting Seeds Rooted Units Starting Point Electrons

Book:The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

“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.”

“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.”

Mind Ends Use Might Desire Asks My Own Divine Birth Direct Riches Providence Wiser Divine Providence

Author:Napoleon Hill

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

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Author:Napoleon Hill

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

Desire Strong Tendencies Strong Desire

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

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

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Author:Napoleon Hill

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

May Matter Desire Purpose Achievement No Matter What Intense Burning Definite Think And Grow Rich Think Rich Grow Rich Burning Desire

Book:The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity

Source: The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity

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

Desire Wish Plans Constant Riches Persistence Definite

Book:Think, Thank, Thunk - Self-Help Collection

Source: Think, Thank, Thunk - Self-Help Collection

“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.”

“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.”

May Self Desire Achievement Possession Height Beam Self Will Positive Self

Book:Napoleon Hill's a Year of Growing Rich: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards

Source: Napoleon Hill's a Year of Growing Rich: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards

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

Desire Pairs Willpower Irresistible

Book:Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition

Source: Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition

“Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.”

Real Desire Belief Burning Plus Burning Desire

Author:Napoleon Hill

“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.”

Mind Hands Form Desire Purpose Wish Plans Transformed Concrete Subconscious Subconscious Mind

Book:Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic

Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic

“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”

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Book:Napoleon Hill Collection

Source: Napoleon Hill Collection

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

Ifs Desire Talent

Author:Napoleon Hill

“Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.”

Men Desire Purpose Levels Effort Attitude Worthy Attraction Burning Law Of Attraction Constructive Mental Attitude Burning Desire Positive Mental Attitude

Author:Napoleon Hill

About the Author

Born: October 26, 1883
Died: November 8, 1970
Known for: Author
Quotes: 756

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