Robert Collier Quotes

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.

The source and center of all man’s creative power… is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas – not money.

If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you.

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving – and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it – and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame – and only one – themselves.

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one’s mind.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Your real self – the ‘I am I’ – is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.