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

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

Robert Collier (1885–1950) was an American author and publisher of popular self-help, and New Thought metaphysical books. He was the nephew of Peter Fenelon Collier, founder of Collier’s Weekly, a magazine that focused on investigative journalism.

Collier wrote about the practical psychology of abundance, desire, faith, visualization, positive action, and becoming one’s best. His The Secret of the Ages (1926,) a set of six books on practical psychology, sold over 300,000 copies during his life. He also condensed The Secret of the Ages into a single volume called The Law of the Higher Potential (1947) and later Riches Within Your Reach (1947.)

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Nature, Desires

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

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

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

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

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

Desire is proof of the availability…
—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: Wisdom, Prophecy, Vision

Constant repetition carries conviction.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Learning

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Learning

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

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

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

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

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: Effort, Success & Failure, Success

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame—and only one—themselves.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Blame

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

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

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

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