Famous Robert Collier Quotations

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"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."
by Robert Collier
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..."
by Robert J. Collier
"You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get."
by Robert J. 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."
by 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."
by Robert Collier
"It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it."
by Robert Collier
"Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated."
by Robert Collier
"The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing."
by Robert Collier
"The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building."
by 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."
by Robert J. 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."
by 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."
by Robert Collier
"The great thing is the start -- to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer -- and him for nothing."
by 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."
by 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."
by 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."
by Robert Collier
"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves."
by Robert Collier
"Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build."
by Robert Collier
"The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that 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."
by Robert Collier
"See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession."
by Robert Collier
"Pictures help you to form the mental mold..."
by Robert Collier
"Constant repetition carries conviction."
by 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."
by Robert Collier
"All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money."
by Robert Collier
"A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars."
by 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."
by Robert Collier
"Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing..."
by 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."
by Robert Collier
"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."
by 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."
by Robert Collier
"See things as you would have them be instead of as they are."
by Robert Collier


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