Robert Collier Quotes

“Achievement is the entirety of little deliberations, rehashed all the live long day.”

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

“But fear – panic – knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity.

Fear is, in short, the devil. It causes most of the sin, disaster, disease and misery of the world. It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may devour.

The only refuge is in the knowledge that it has no power other than the power you give it.”

“Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance.”

“Desire is proof of the availability.”

“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.”

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

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

“Fear is merely creative thought in negative form.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humour, 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.”

“Realize in your daily life that 'matter' is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons subject entirely to the control of Mind; that your environment, your success, your happiness, are all of your own making.

All wealth depends upon a clear understanding of the fact that mind – thought – is the only creator.

The great business of life is thinking. Control your thoughts and you control circumstance.”

“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.”

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

“The law of the universe is the law of supply. You see it on every hand. Nature is lavish in everything she does.”

“The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there – unlimited power.”

“The Universal Mind expresses itself largely through the individual. It is continually seeking an outlet.”

“The world is to each one of us the world of his individual perceptions.”

“Thought is energy. Mental images are concentrated energy. And energy concentrated on any definite purpose becomes power.”

“You are today the result of your thoughts of yesterday, and the many yesterdays preceding it. You are forming today the mold for what you will be in the years to come.”

“You can have what you want – if you know how to form the mold for it in your own thoughts.

There is no dream that may not come true, if you but learn to use the Creative Force working through you.

The methods that work for one will work for all. The key to power lies in using what you have freely, fully and thus opening wide your channels for more creative force to flow through you.”

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

“People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition.

They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one – themselves.”

“Study your reader first – your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.”

“The headline of an advertisement accounts for 60% of the pull of that ad.

In the same way, the start of a letter makes or breaks the letter, because if the start does not interest your reader, he never gets down to the rest of your letter.”

“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?”

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