Robert Collier Quotes

• See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Things, Instead

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

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Greatly, Sometimes

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

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Problem, Break

• Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Build

• People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame – and only one – themselves.

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in People, Person

• 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

  Topics in Victory

  Tags in Advantage, Adversity, Time, Win

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

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stand, World, Forward

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

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Passed, Often

• 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

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in World, Trouble, Need

• 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

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Real

• 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

  Topics in God, Knowledge

  Tags in Literally, Think, Problem

• Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Confidence, Truth

  Tags in Faith

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

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Motion, Possibilities, Point

• See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possession, Want, Think

• If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you.

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happen, Things

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

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Measure, Chance

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Riches, Getting, Good

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World

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

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Course, Want
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  Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Small, Repeat

Robert Collier (43)

Birth:	19th April, 1885
Death:	1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

Robert Collier was an American author of self-help, and New Thought metaphysical books in the 20th century. Collier was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 19, 1885. He was the nephew of Peter Fenelon Collier, founder of Collier's Weekly. He was involved in writing, editing, and research for most of his life.

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