Robert Collier Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

See things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don't fret and worry about them. Don't think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

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

Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance.

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

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. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success.]

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 started, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

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

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.

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

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!

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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