Quotes from Robert Collier

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

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

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

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!

Mind is all that counts.

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.

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

Constant repetition carries conviction.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

All power is from within and therefore under our control

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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