Robert Collier Quotes

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

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.

Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

The essence of this law is that you must think abundance; see abundance, feel abundance, believe abundance. Let no thought of limitation enter your mind.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

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.

Desire is proof of the availability.

Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.

Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance.

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.

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

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!

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

Knowing that you have working with you a force, which never yet has failed in anything it has undertaken, you can go ahead in the confident knowledge that it will not fail in your case, either.

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor.

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.

See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

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.

We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

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.

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

All power is from within and therefore under our control

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

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.

The greater the prevalence of positive thoughts, the more likely you are to receive a positive outcome.

Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be.

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

Achievement is the entirety of little deliberations, rehashed all the live long day.

Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to produce on your reader — what feeling you must arouse in him.

Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.