Inspirational Quotes by Robert Collier (American Self-Help Author)

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 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

First the stalk—then the roots. First the need—then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus—then the elements needed for its growth.
—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: The Mind, Mind

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Strength, Greatness, Achievement

All power is from within and is therefore under our own control.
—Robert Collier

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

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

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

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Charity, Giving

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: Desires, Desire

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

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

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Faith, Belief

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

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

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination…they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Strength, Imagination, Success, Vision

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor…
—Robert Collier
Topics: Obstacles, Difficulty

Pictures help you to form the mental mold…
—Robert Collier
Topics: Imagination

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

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Old Age

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

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

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

The first essential, of course, is to know what you want.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Goals

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: Problems, Determination, Opportunity

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

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Risk

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

The first principle of success is desire—knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires

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.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Vision, Prophecy, Wisdom

The great thing is the start—to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer—and him for nothing.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Customers

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

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: 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 sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires

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, Victory, Challenges

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas—not money.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Money

A man’s best friends are his ten fingers.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Action, Labor, Self-Discovery

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