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  • Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.

  • 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.

    Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.28, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA
  • Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.

    Inspire   Desire   Loser  
  • Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

    Success   Believe   Heart  
  • The starting point of all achievement is desire.

    Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.142, Penguin
  • We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

    Soul   Secret   Desire  
  • The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

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

    "The Law of Success". Book by Napoleon Hill, 1928.
  • The desire for success is inherent within all of us. It is a part of our nature to want to grow, to improve the quality of our lives. However, nothing improves by accident, it requires conscious attention. When you are being bombarded by negatives, improvement, growth and success are easy to forget.

    FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 24, 2012
  • In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

  • You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

  • The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

    FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 10, 2012
  • When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

    Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.295, Courier Corporation
  • Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

  • The strong desire for success is the best indication that you can achieve success.

    Strong   Desire   Achieve  
  • To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

    Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books
  • Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

    Failure   Desire   Energy  
    Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive”, p.245, Bantam
  • Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Napoleon Hill (2007). “Think And Grow Rich”, p.103, Lulu.com
  • A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

    William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics
  • As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

  • 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.

    Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.31, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA
  • You can have anything you want

  • A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.99, Penguin
  • A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.

    Desire   Burning   Action  
  • One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

  • Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

    "Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude". Book by W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill (Chapter 2: You Can Change Your World), 1960.
  • You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

    "Thoughts on Writing" by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.elizabethgilbert.com. February 24, 2011.
  • Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

    Love   Funny   Life  
    "A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost". Book by Sydney Cox, 1957.
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