Robert Collier

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

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

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

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 beginning.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.