First Principle of Success

The first principle of success is Desire–knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.”

“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.

“Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

                                                                 ~ Robert Collier,

You can do as much as you think you can

You can do as much as you think you can,

But you'll never accomplish more;

If you're afraid of yourself, young man,

There's little for you in store.

For failure comes from the inside first,

It's there, if we only knew it,

And you can win, though you face the worst,

If you feel that you're going to do it.

                                   --Excerpt from "The Secret of the Ages" (1926)