Top 74 Robert Collier Sayings
#1. 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.
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#2. Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
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#4. Knowing that you have working with you a force, which never yet has failed in anything it has undertaken, you can go ahead in the confident knowledge that it will not fail in your case, either.
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#5. Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
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#7. If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem ... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.
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#10. 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.
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#11. Achievement is the entirety of little deliberations, rehashed all the live long day.
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#12. All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
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#13. 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.
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#14. The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
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#15. All power is from within and therefore under our control
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#16. Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader.
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#17. 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.
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#18. You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
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#19. The headline of an advertisement accounts for 60% of the pull of that ad. In the same way, the start of a letter makes or breaks the letter, because if the start does not interest your reader, he never gets down to the rest of your letter.
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#21. All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
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#22. We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.
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#23. You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.
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#25. There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.
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#26. If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
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#27. 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.
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#28. Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf ... you have to get on your knees to get it.
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#29. Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
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#30. The source and center of all man's creative power ... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
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#31. Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
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#32. Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be.
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#33. Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
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#34. All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
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#35. Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.
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#36. Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
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#37. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#39. Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you.
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#40. 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!
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#41. Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
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#42. The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor ...
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#43. Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
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#44. The essence of this law is that you must think abundance; see abundance, feel abundance, believe abundance. Let no thought of limitation enter your mind.
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#45. We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.
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#46. Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance.
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#47. Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.
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#48. Always enter the conversation already taking place in the customer's mind.
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#49. You are today the result of your thoughts of yesterday, and the many yesterdays preceeding it. You are forming today the mold for what you will be in the years to come.
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#50. See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
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#51. 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.
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#52. 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.
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#53. Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
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#54. It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
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#56. Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
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#57. All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.
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#58. 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.
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#59. A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.
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#60. If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
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#61. 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.
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#62. People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
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#63. As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
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#64. 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.
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#65. Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.
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#66. The greater the prevalence of positive thoughts, the more likely you are to receive a positive outcome.
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#67. 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.
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#68. See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
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#69. The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there - unlimited power.
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#70. 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.
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#71. The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
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#72. 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.
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#73. It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.
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#74. 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.
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