K.S. Collier Quotes

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

All power is from within and therefore under our control

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be.

The greater the prevalence of positive thoughts, the more likely you are to receive a positive outcome.

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Achievement is the entirety of little deliberations, rehashed all the live long day.

Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.

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

Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to produce on your reader — what feeling you must arouse in him.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there - unlimited power.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.

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.

People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.

I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

Mind is all that counts.

Your real self - the I am I - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

Skill is less important than awareness.

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -then the elements needed for its growth.

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.