Think and Grow Rich Every Day

• Persistence does not recognize failure.
• You must be willing to burn your ships behind you and cut all sources of retreat.
• When opportunity comes, it often appears in a different form, and from a different direction than one expects.
• 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. This changed world requires practical dreamers who can and will put their dreams into action. The practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern makers of civilization.
• Thoughts and dreams are the seedlings of reality.
• Stand by your desire until it becomes the dominating obsession of your life and finally a fact.
• Our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts which we hold in our minds. These magnets attract to us the forces, the people, and the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
• Success requires no apologies, and failure permits no alibis.
• Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
• Nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith.
• Strange and imponderable is the power of the human mind! We do not understand the method by which it uses every circumstance, every individual, and every physical thing within its reach, as a means of transmuting desire into its physical counterpart.
• There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it. No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
  No more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
• The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their “other selves.”
• A persons actions are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.
• Any definite chief aim that is deliberately fixed in the mind and held there, with the determination to realize it, finally saturates the entire subconscious mind until it automatically influences the physical action of the body toward the attainment of that purpose.
• Every man is what he is because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.
• A thought with emotion may be compared to a seed which, when planted in fertile soil, germinates, grows, and multiplies itself over and over again.
• There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.
• You and you alone must decide whether or not the reward for which you are striving is worth the price you must pay for it in effort.
• Inspiration may be considered a direct message from infinite intelligence. Treat it with respect and act upon it as soon as you receive it. Failure to do this will be fatal to your success.
• Your business in life is presumably to achieve success. To be successful, you must find peace of mind, acquire the material needs of life, and above all, attain happiness. All of these evidences of success begin in the form of thought impulses.
• When a man with a definite chief aim starts through a crowd everybody stands aside and makes a way for him, but let a man hesitate and show by his actions that he is not sure which way he wants to go, and the crowd will step all over his toes and refuse to budge an inch out of his way.
• Knowledge is only potential power; it has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.
• The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling.
  Both success and failure are largely the results of habit.
• It is nearly always more profitable to listen than it is to speak; two ears / one mouth.
• Taking the conversation away from another person is a common form of lack of self-control which is not only discourteous, but it deprives those who do it of many valuable opportunities to learn from others.
• Some very able men have not yet risen above this vulgar and self-destructive habit of belittling their enemies, competitors, and contemporaries.
• Remember, the idea is the main thing. Specialized knowledge can be found just around the corner- any corner!
• Man can create anything which he can imagine.
• Man’s only limitation, within reason, lies in his development and use of his imagination.
• Desire is only a thought, an impulse. It is abstract and of no value until it has been transformed into its physical counterpart.
• God seems to through himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get just that!
• First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, and then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
• We win or lose according to the nature of the plans we build and carry out.
• First comes the thought, then organization of that thought into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
• Your achievement can be no greater than your plans are sound.
• The man who makes too much over his title generally has little else to emphasize.
• Depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing.
• Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth.
• Those who talk too much do little else.
• Thought backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
• Those who reach decisions promptly and definitively know what they want, and generally get it.
• The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.
• Until a man selects a definite purpose in life he dissipates his energies and spreads his thoughts over so many subjects and in so many directions that hey lead not to power but to indecision and weakness.
• The follower is rarely the person of quick decision.
• Adversities and temporary defeat are generally blessings in disguise, for the reason that they force one to use both imagination and decision.
• The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started.
• If you are not sure which way to move, it is better to shut your eyes and move in the dark than to remain still and make no move at all.
• The world will forgive you if you make mistakes, but it will never forgive you if you make no decisions, because it will never hear of you outside of the community in which you live.
• Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
• Guessing instead of knowing destroys persistence.
• Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans backed by definite desiers through constant persistence.
• Failure takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
  Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price which is continuous, unyielding, persistent effort.
• Plans are useless without sufficient power to translate them into action.
• Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be attracted.
• Remember that the subconscious mind may be voluntarily directed only through habit.
• Master faith, be patient, and be persistent.
• Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in thought.
• There is much evidence to support the theory that only emotionalized thoughts have any action influence upon the subconscious mind.
• Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. One does not become money conscious by filling one’s mind with negative emotions.
• If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray that you may not receive it or that your prayer will not be acted upon by infinite intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.
• Through the emotions, the vibrations of thought may be increased.
  Indecision is the seedling of fear.
• Indecision crystallizes into doubt; the two blend and become fear.
  Before we can master an enemy, we must know its name, its habits, and its place of abode. The enemy could be you or your way of thinking; analyze yourself carefully.
• Fears are nothing more than states of mind. One’s state of mind is subject to control and direction.
• Nature has endowed man with absolute control over but one thing, and that is thought.
  If you neglect to make the start, or stop before you arrive, no one will be to blame but you.
• A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased; it must be created.
• Procrastination: putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.

Source: "Think and Grow Rich Every Day" By Napoleon Hill