It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desires, Desire
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame—and only one—themselves.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Blame
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
As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
—Robert Collier
Topics: Opportunity
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
—Robert Collier
Success is the sum of small efforts,
Repeated day in and day out,
With never a thought of frustration,
With never a thought of doubt.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Success, Effort, Success & Failure
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!
—Robert Collier
Topics: Imagination
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
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Learning
Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires
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
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: Adversity, Challenges, Victory
You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Charity, Giving
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.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Control
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.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Simplicity
Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Learning
You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Achievement, Strength, Greatness
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas—not money.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Money
Desire is proof of the availability…
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires
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
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
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.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Learning
Trust in God, as Moses did, let the way be ever so dark; and it shall come to pass that your life at last shall surpass even your longing. Not, it may be, in the line of that longing, that shall be as it pleaseth God; but the glory is as sure as the grace, and the most ancient heavens are not more sure than that.
—Robert Collier
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
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Action, Possibilities
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
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing…
—Robert Collier
Topics: Prophecy, Vision
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
—Robert Collier
Topics: History
Pictures help you to form the mental mold…
—Robert Collier
Topics: Imagination
A man’s best friends are his ten fingers.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Self-Discovery, Labor, Action
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- Ernest Holmes American New Thought Writer
- Wayne Dyer American Self-help Author
- Byron Katie American Speaker
- Thomas Merton American Trappist Monk
- Robert H. Schuller American Televangelist, Author
- Thaddeus Golas American New Age Writer
- Norman Vincent Peale American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
- Louise Hay American Self-Help Author
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross American Psychiatrist
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