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Robert Collier [1885-1950] American

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Robert Collier was an American author of self-help, and New Thought metaphysical books in the 20th century. 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. His book The Secret of the Ages sold over 300,000 copies during his life.

Imagination, Success, Chance, Design, Environmental, Good, Humor, Knowledge, Money, Power

Quote	Tags	Rank
If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.		101
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.	Success	102
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.	Imagination	103
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.		104
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.	Chance, Success	105
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.	Success	106
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.	Imagination	107
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, 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.	Humor	108
Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.		109
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.		110
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.	Good	111
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.	Design	112
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.	Power	113
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.		114
See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.		115
As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!		116
You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.		117
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.		118
Constant repetition carries conviction.		119
The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.		120
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.		121
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.	Knowledge	122
Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.		123
Supply always comes on the heels of demand.		124
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.		125
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.		126
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.	Environmental	201
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.		202
Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.		203
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.		204
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.	Money	205
Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.		206
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!		207
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.		208
It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.		209
The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.	Imagination	210
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.		211
Pictures help you to form the mental mold.		212
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.		213

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