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Quotes About Determination

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. Nature
~ James Allen
Circumstance does not make the man;
~ James Allen
A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
~ James Allen
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
~ James Allen
They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings, 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.
~ James Allen
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life.
~ James Allen
Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplished anything, and never can.
~ James Allen
In this path, as in no different, is the regulation absolute that He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened; for most effective through endurance, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the Door of the Temple of Knowledge.
~ James Allen
for your dominant trends of thought are the determining factors in your destiny.
~ James Allen
UNTIL thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. With
~ James Allen
So You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, 'environment,' But spirit scorns it, and is free.
~ James Allen
Men are demanding to improve their circumstances, however are unwilling to improve themselves; they consequently stay sure. The guy who does now not cut back from self-crucifixion can never fail to perform the object upon which his heart is about.
~ James Allen
privations;
~ James Allen
would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. VISIONS
~ James Allen
Having conceived of his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a straight pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right or to the left, but straight.
~ James Allen
importunity
~ James Allen
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine...
~ James Allen
You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, environment, But spirit scorns it, and is free.
~ James Allen
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.
~ James Allen
it is us and only us who can be the architect of our success or future.
~ James Allen
A precise educate of thought endured in, be it right or awful, can not fail to supply its effects at the character and instances. A man cannot without delay select his occasions, but he can pick his mind, and so in a roundabout way, but surely, form his situations.
~ James Allen
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve.
~ James Allen
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
~ James Allen
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. Doubt and worry are the exceptional enemies of understanding, and he who encourages them, who does no longer slay them, thwarts himself at each step.
~ James Allen