Robert Collier (1885–1950) was an American author and publisher of popular self-help, and New Thought metaphysical books. He was the nephew of Peter Fenelon Collier, founder of Collier’s Weekly, a magazine that focused on investigative journalism.
Collier wrote about the practical psychology of abundance, desire, faith, visualization, confident action, and becoming one’s best. His The Secret of the Ages (1926,) a set of six books on practical psychology, sold over 300,000 copies during his life. He also condensed The Secret of the Ages into a single volume called The Law of the Higher Potential (1947) and later Riches Within Your Reach (1947.)
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The first principle of success is desire–knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat…
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame — and only one — themselves.
—Robert Collier
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.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Learning
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
—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.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Success, Strength, Vision, Imagination
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Learning
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
Topics: Luck
All power is from within and is therefore under our own control.
—Robert Collier
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
—Robert Collier
It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Desire, Desires
The first essential, of course, is to know what you want.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Goals
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
—Robert Collier
Topics: Faith, Belief