It was definite.Įvery person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our soils because we have the power to control our thoughts.ĭesire was not a hope! It was not a wish! It was a keen, pulsating desire, which transcended everything else. Success comes to those who become success conscious.įailure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.Īnother weakness found in altogether too many people is the habit of measuring everything, and everything, by their own impressions and beliefs. That is exactly what the majority of men do. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.īefore success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. 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. “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. Yet Hill might have answered that this was exactly the point: here was a success philosophy that worked as long as it was faithfully practiced, and which inevitably would pay off handsomely.Īnything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve. There is quite an irony to the fact that Hill had not been rich when he wrote Think and Grow Rich – far from it – which may, on the surface, undermine his apparent authority to write such device.

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