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: Desires, Desire
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
Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desires, Desire
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
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.
—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
You can have anything you want—if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish—if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires
It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires
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
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: Desires, Desire
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
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing…
—Robert Collier
Topics: Prophecy, Vision
All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desires, Desire, Nature
You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Giving, Charity
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.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Action
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
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 & Failure, Effort, Success
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
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
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
—Robert Collier
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: Opportunity, Determination, Problems
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: Challenges, Victory, Adversity
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, Imagination, Focus
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Belief, Faith
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame—and only one—themselves.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Blame
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.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Truth
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
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
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
Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Learning
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