Top 70 Robert Collier Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

— Robert Collier

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2. “Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.”

— Robert Collier

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3. “You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.”

— Robert Collier

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4. “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.”

— Robert Collier

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5. “Constant repetition carries conviction.”

— Robert Collier

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6. “All power is from within and therefore under our control.”

— Robert Collier

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7. “If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you.”

— Robert Collier

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8. “See things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don’t fret and worry about them. Don’t think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.”

— Robert Collier

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9. “The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.”

— Robert Collier

10. “There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.”

— Robert Collier

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11. “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

12. “All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas – not money.”

— Robert Collier

13. “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.”

— Robert Collier

14. “The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.”

— Robert Collier

15. “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.”

— Robert Collier

16. “Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance.”

— Robert Collier

17. “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.”

— Robert Collier

18. “Always enter the conversation already taking place in the customer’s mind.”

— Robert Collier

19. “See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.”

— Robert Collier

20. “A single idea – the sudden flash of a thought – may be worth a million dollars.”

— Robert Collier

21. “I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do Or any kindness that I can show To any human being Let me do it now. Let me Not defer it or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.”

— Robert Collier

22. “Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be.”

— Robert Collier

23. “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

24. “Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.”

— Robert Collier

25. “Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.”

— Robert Collier

26. “Mind is all that counts.”

— Robert Collier

27. “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.”

— Robert Collier

28. “Desire is proof of the availability...”

— Robert Collier

29. “Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.”

— Robert Collier

30. “As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!”

— Robert Collier

31. “Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.”

— Robert Collier

32. “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 started, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.”

— Robert Collier

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

— Robert Collier

34. “Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don’t merely dream- but create.”

— Robert Collier

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

— Robert Collier

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

— Robert Collier

37. “You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.”

— Robert Collier

38. “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!”

— Robert Collier

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

— Robert Collier

40. “The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...”

— Robert Collier

41. “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.”

— Robert Collier

42. “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.”

— Robert Collier

43. “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

44. “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.”

— Robert Collier

45. “All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.”

— Robert Collier

46. “If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.”

— Robert Collier

47. “The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there – unlimited power.”

— Robert Collier

48. “Supply always comes on the heels of demand.”

— Robert Collier

49. “Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...”

— Robert Collier

50. “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.”

— Robert Collier