James Allen
British author, 1864-1912
52 quotes.
Quotes by James Allen
- A man does not get what he wishes and prays for, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with HIS thoughts and actions.
- A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
- A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favour or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts.
- A thought constantly repeated at last becomes a fixed habit of the mind, and from such habits proceeds the life.
- All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
- Alter your attitude of mind towards it, and at once the crooked path is made straight, the unhappiness is turned into joy.
- As the fountain from the hidden spring, so issues man's life from the secret recesses of his heart.
- As you think, you travel; as you love, you attract.
- Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self.
- A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
- Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- Despondency and cheerfulness, anger and calmness, covetousness and generosity--indeed, all states of mind--are habits built up by choice, until they have become automatic.
- Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
- Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
- Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err.
- Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance.
- Go to your task with love in your heart and you will go to it light-hearted and cheerful.
- He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
- If you should fail ten times, do not be disheartened; if you should fail a hundred times, rise up and pursue your way; if you should fail a thousand times, do not despair.
- In the measure that you master self, that you control your mental forces instead of being controlled by them, in just such measure will you master affairs and outward circumstances.
- Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.
- Inward processes of thought make up the sum of character and life, and man can modify and alter these processes by bringing will and effort to bear upon them.
- Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.
- Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.
- Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
- Man is manacled only by himself...thought and action are the jailers of fate...they imprison or they are angels of freedom...
- Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
- Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
- Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.
- Mind is the infallible weaver of destiny; thought is the thread, good and evil deeds are the warp and woof, and the web, woven upon the loom of life, is character.
- Most beginnings are small, and appear trivial and insignificant, but in reality they are the most important things in life.
- Never let go of integrity, generosity, and love, for these, coupled with energy, will lift you into the truly prosperous state.
- Not only great happiness but great power arises from doing little things unselfishly, wisely, and perfectly, for life in its totality is made up of little things.
- Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns.
- Purpose is the key-stone in the temple of achievement. It binds and holds together in a complete whole that which would otherwise lie scattered and useless.
- Reverie is a loose dreaming into which a man falls; meditation is a strong, purposeful thinking into which a man rises.
- Search for a rock, a principle, and having found it cling to it; get it under your feet and stand erect upon it, until at last, immovably fixed upon it, you succeed in defying the fury of the waves and storms of selfishness.
- Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power.
- The cause of all power, as of all weakness, is within: the secret of all happiness as of all misery is likewise within.
- The character of the whole day depends upon the way it is begun.