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Action(s)
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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
-Robert Collier
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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.
-Robert Collier
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The great thing is the start -- to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer -- and him for nothing.
-Robert Collier
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Adversity
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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
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Charity
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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.
-Robert Collier
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You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
-Robert Collier
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Commitment
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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
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Conflict
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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.
-Robert Collier
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Control
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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
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Desires
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All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
-Robert Collier
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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.
-Robert Collier
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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
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The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
-Robert Collier
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Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
-Robert Collier
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You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish -- if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
-Robert Collier
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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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It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
-Robert Collier
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Desire is proof of the availability...
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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.
-Robert Collier
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Determination
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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
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Difficulty
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The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...
-Robert Collier
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Environment
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People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves.
-Robert Collier
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Goals
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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
-Robert Collier
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History
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All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
-Robert Collier
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Imagination
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The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that 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
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Books by and about Robert Collier