Napoleon Hill

On the other hand, every material thing that man has created began in the form of energy, through the seed of an idea that was released through the imaginative faculty of the human mind. In other words, the beginning of every material thing is energy and the ending of it is energy.

All matter obeys the command of one form or another of energy. The highest known form of energy is that which functions as the human mind. The human mind, therefore, is the sole directing force of everything man creates, and what he may create with: This force in the future, as compared with that which he has created with it in the past, will make his past achievements seem petty and small.

We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

Buxton said: The longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

That quality will do anything that can be done in this world - and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature a man without it.

Donald G. Mitchell has well said: Resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve; not crude determinations; not errant purposes - but that strong and indefatigable will which treads down difficulties and danger, as a boy treads down tile heaving frost-lands of winter, which kindles his eye and brain with proud pulse beat toward the unattainable.

The great Disraeli said: I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Sir John Simpson said: A passionate DESIRE and an unwearied will can perform impossibilities, or what may seem to be such to the cold, timid and feeble.