Quotes By Robert Collier

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

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!

Constant repetition carries conviction.

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

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

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

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.

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

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

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

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.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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