Quotes from Robert Collier

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

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.

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.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

All power is from within and therefore under our control

You are today the result of your thoughts of yesterday, and the many yesterdays preceeding it. You are forming today the mold for what you will be in the years to come.

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

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do Or any kindness that I can show To any human being Let me do it now. Let me Not defer it or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

We always place that little word "but" after our wishes and desires, feeling deep down that there are some things too good to be true.

There is a Spark of Divinity in YOU. What are you doing to fan it into flame? Are you giving it a chance to grow, to express itself, to become an all-consuming fire? Are you giving it work to do? Are you making it seek out ever greater worlds to conquer? Or are you letting it slumber neglected, or perhaps even smothering it with doubt and fear?

You can do as much as you think you can, But you'll never accomplish more; If you're afraid of yourself, young man, There's little for you in store. For failure comes from the inside first, It's there if we only knew it, And you can win, though you face the worst, If you feel that you're going to do 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 Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

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