Robert Collier
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
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You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
I'm going to take a bath.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Open the pod bay doors,
If they move, kill ' em.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
I'll be back.
There is no education like adversity.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
All work is empty save when there is love.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
But I would be proud.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
I am your number one fan.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Love that is true never grows old.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
They are able because they think they are able.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.