Top 92 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Collier

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

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

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

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

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.

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

Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

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.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

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

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

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

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

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

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, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

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

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

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

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

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

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

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

Constant repetition carries conviction.

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

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.

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

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance.

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

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

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.]

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

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

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.

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.

Desire is proof of the availability.

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.

Always enter the conversation already taking place in the customer's mind.

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.