Robert Collier Quotes

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.

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one; and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

You have to compete in the same way for your reader's attention. He is not looking for your letter. He has a thousand and one other things more important to him to occupy his mind. Why should he divert his attention from them to plow through pages of type about you or your projects?

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

A fire-mist and a planet,
A crystal and a cell,
A jellyfish and a saurian,
A cave where the cave men dwell;
Then a sense of law and order,
A face upturned from the clod;
Some call it Evolution, And others call it God." Reprinted from The New England Journal.

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.

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

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.

All power is from within and therefore under our control

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

TODAY. Repeat to yourself, the first thing upon awakening in the morning and the last thing before going to sleep at night — "My body was made in the image and likeness of God. God first imagined it in its entirety, therefore every cell and bone and tissue is perfect, every organ and muscle performing its proper function. That is the only model of me in Universal Mind. That is the only model of me that my Subconscious Mind knows.

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

Only by understanding that there is but one power — and that this power is Mind, not circumstances or environment — is it possible

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