Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
– Robert Collier
Constant repetition carries conviction.
– Robert Collier
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
– Robert Collier
If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
– Robert Collier
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
– Robert Collier
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
– Robert Collier
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.
– Robert Collier
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.
– Robert Collier
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.
– Robert Collier
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!
– Robert Collier
Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
– Robert Collier
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.
– Robert Collier
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.
– Robert Collier
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.
– Robert Collier
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.
– Robert Collier
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
– Robert Collier
Pictures help you to form the mental mold.
– Robert Collier
Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
– Robert Collier
See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
– Robert Collier
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
– Robert Collier
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
– Robert Collier
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.
– Robert Collier
The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
– Robert Collier
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building-steadily building.
– Robert Collier
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
– Robert Collier
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.
– Robert Collier
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.
– Robert Collier
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.
– Robert Collier
You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
– Robert Collier
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.
– Robert Collier
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 beginning.
– Robert Collier
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
– Robert Collier
The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
– Robert Collier
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
– Robert Collier
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
– Robert Collier
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.