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People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves. ↗

— Robert Collier

#blame #environment #only #people #person

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get. ↗

— Robert Collier

#get #give #reap #sow #you

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

#believe #comes #dominating #false #mind

We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project. ↗

— Judith Wright

#counterproductive #finishing #growth #having #instead

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

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 beginnings. ↗

— Robert Collier

#article #beginnings #contrivance #designed #each

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. ↗

— Robert Collier

#bring #center #clear #into #mass

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it. ↗

— Robert Collier

#greatly #love #only #seems #sometimes

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#desire #even #intention #object #only

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#freedom #his #lives #man #own