Master-Key to Riches notes, Part II

by Napoleon Hill.

• then reluctantly, I retraced my footsteps back to the city, there to mingle once again with those who are driven, like galley slaves, to the inexorable rules of civilization, in a mad scramble to gather up material things they do not need. 
• suggest that the Infinite Intelligence reveals itself through silence more readily than through the boisterousness of people's struggles, in their mad rush to accumulate material things.
• Applied Faith: when the mind has been cleared of a negative mental attitude, the power of Faith moves in and begins to take possession. 
• Faith fraternizes only with the mind that is positive!
• Faith is the outward demonstration of Definiteness of Purpose!
• How to Demonstrate the Power of Faith: a. know what you want and determine what you have to give in return for it; possession of anything first takes place mentally; accept defeat as an inspiration to greater effort and carry on with belief that you will succeed; Let not a single day pass, without making at least one definite move toward the attainment of your Definite Major Purpose -- "Faith without works is dead."
• indomitable will backed by an abiding faith.
• dominating thoughts into reality.
• They all met with failure -- they didn't call it by that name; they called it "temporary defeat."
• Law of Cosmic Habitforce -- Nature's method of giving fixation to all habits so they carry on automatically. 
• Living habits, these we may fix by patterns of our thoughts.
• Cosmic Habitforce causes this. Any thought held in the mind through repetition begins immediately to translate itself into its physical equivalent. 
• If you desire sound health, give orders to your subconscious mind to create it and Cosmic Habitforce will carry out the order. First comes the "consciousness" of that which you desire, then follows the physical or mental manifestation of your desires. The "consciousness" is your responsibility. 
• the 17 principles: 1) Habit of Going Extra Mile; 2) Definiteness of Purpose; 3) Master Mind; 4) Applied Faith; 5) Pleasing Personality; 6) Habit of Learning from Defeat; 7) Creative Vision; 8) Personal Initiative [starts action and keeps it moving toward definite ends]; 9) Accurate Thinking; 10) Self-Discipline [product of carefully established and carefully maintained habits; solely a product of the will; this principle, when mastered and applied, gives one complete control over one's greatest enemy, oneself!]
• 11) Concentration of Endeavor; 12) Cooperation; 13) Enthusiasm; 14) Habit of Health; 15) Budgeting Time and Money; 16) Golden Rule Applied; 17) Cosmic Habitforce [principle by which all habits are fixed and made permanent in varying degrees; consists of a negative and positive potentiality, as do all forms of energy.]
• Habit. Repetition - means by which any habit is begun. 
• We are where we are and what we are because of our fixed habits. 
• Two ways of relating oneself to life. One is playing horse while life rides. Other is becoming the rider while life plays horse. Choice: Be the horse or rider. Life either rides or is ridden. 
• Ego. When self-suggestion attains the status of Faith, the ego becomes limitless in its power. It must be fed with Definiteness of Purpose. No one can become the master of anything or anyone until becoming the master of the ego. 
• Deeds not words. 
• People relate themselves because of motives. 
• Thomas Edison, Luther Burbank, John Burroughs, Harvey Fireston. 
• All riches begin within their own minds.Set off by strict self-discipline. 
• Faith without action is useless. 
• Ted Roosevelt -- a will which refused to accept defeat as anything more than an urge to greater effort. 
• Carnegie: "our only limitations are those which we set up in our own minds."
• Master-Key to Riches: power of thought! Nothing more nor less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind! 
• Only thing over which you have complete control is your own mental attitude!