136 Quotes by Robert Collier

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.

If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do not understand the power that is yours. It is not a question of the universal giving to you. It offers everything to everyone – there is no partiality.

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

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.

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!

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?

We always place that little word “but” after our wishes and desires, feeling deep down that there are some things too good to be true.

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one; and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.