Robert Collier Quotes Page 2

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

“As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!”

“First the stalk — then the roots. First the need — then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus — then the elements needed for its growth.

The seed is a primary cause. The need, the nucleus, both are primary causes.

Conditions — they are secondary. Given enough life in the nucleus, it will draw to itself the necessary means for growth regardless of conditions.”

“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.”

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

“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.

But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat.”

“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.”

“It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.”

“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!”

“Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.”

“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.”

“Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.”

“Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.”

“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.”

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

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

“The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.”

“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.”

“The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor.”

“The source and center of all man's creative power is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.”

“There is nothing on Earth that you cannot have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.”

“You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.”

“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.”

“Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.”

“There is a spark of divinity in you. What are you doing to fan it into flame?

Are you giving it a chance to grow, to express itself, to become an all-consuming fire? Are you giving it work to do? Are you making it seek out ever greater worlds to conquer?

Or are you letting it slumber neglected, or perhaps even smothering it with doubt and fear?”

“Constant repetition carries conviction.”

“Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.”