Robert Collier

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.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

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.

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.