Quotes from Robert Collier

People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

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

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.

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.

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

If you have brains, use them. If you have skill, apply it. The world must profit by it, and therefore 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.

Desire is proof of the availability.

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

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.

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.

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

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.