Quotes from James Allen

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.