Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Trouble
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Determination, Problems, Opportunity
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Wealth
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.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Conflict
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
—Robert Collier
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Procrastination
It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Commitment
See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Imagination
A single idea—the sudden flash of a thought—may be worth a million dollars.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Money
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Vision, Focus, Imagination
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires
Constant repetition carries conviction.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Learning
Desire is proof of the availability…
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires
The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor…
—Robert Collier
Topics: Obstacles, Difficulty
The first principle of success is desire—knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires
As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
—Robert Collier
Topics: Opportunity
Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Old Age
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.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Victory, Adversity, Challenges
It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desires, Desire
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck—who keeps right on going—is the man who is there when the good luck comes—and is ready to receive it.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Luck
Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Planning
Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Risk
Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires
The first principle of success is desire—knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat…
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Opportunity
It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Mind, The Mind
Beautiful is the activity which works for good, and beautiful the stillness which waits for good; blessed the self-sacrifice of one, and blessed the self-forgetfulness of the other.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Goodness
You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Greatness, Achievement, Strength
A man’s best friends are his ten fingers.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Self-Discovery, Action, Labor
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