The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. – Robert Collier
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
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are. – Robert Collier
The source and center of all mans creative power… is his power of making images, or the power of imagination. – Robert Collier
Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. – Joseph Farrell, “About Conversation,” The Lectures of a Certain Professor, 1877