Quotes about Desire
Some people foolishly believe that only MONEY can make money. This is not true! DESIRE, transmuted into its monetary equivalent, through the principles laid down here, is the agency through which money is made. Money, of itself, is nothing but inert matter. It cannot move, think, or talk, but it can hear when a man who DESIRES it, calls it to come!
— Napoleon Hill
The emotion of sex is an "irresistible force," against which there can be no such opposition as an "immovable body." When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a super power for action.
— Napoleon Hill
Henry Ford is a success, because he understands, and applies the principles of success. One of these is DESIRE: knowing what one wants.
— Napoleon Hill
The Sixth Sense is a subject that will be of great interest and benefit to the person whose aim is to accumulate vast wealth, but it need not claim the attention of those whose desires are more modest.
— Napoleon Hill
THE SEVEN MAJOR POSITIVE EMOTIONS The emotion of DESIRE The emotion of FAITH The emotion of LOVE The emotion of SEX The emotion of ENTHUSIASM The emotion of ROMANCE The emotion of HOPE.
— Napoleon Hill
The emotions of FAITH, LOVE, and SEX are the most powerful of all the major positive emotions.
— Napoleon Hill
I believe in the power of DESIRE backed by FAITH, because I have seen this power lift men from lowly beginnings to places of power and wealth; I have seen it rob the grave of its victims; I have seen it serve as the medium by which men staged a comeback after having been defeated in a hundred different ways; I have seen it provide my own son with a normal, happy, successful life, despite Nature's having sent him into the world without ears.
— Napoleon Hill
Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach decisions, you will not succeed in any undertaking, much less in that of transmuting Your own desire into money.
— Napoleon Hill
One of the chief characteristics of Barnes' Desire was that it was definite.
— Napoleon Hill
The motive of self-preservation The motive of financial gain The motive of love The motive of sexuality
— Napoleon Hill
First. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire.
— Napoleon Hill
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.
— Napoleon Hill