Robert Collier Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The World's Greatest Discovery

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. — EDGAR A. GUEST.

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