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Quotes by James Allen - (45 quotes)

James Allen - From the Achievement category:

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Ambition category:

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Artists category:

Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage – these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived. Without them, laboring humanity would perish. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Choices category:

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Colour category:

The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colors which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Commitment category:

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Complaining category:

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Confidence category:

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Courage category:

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)

James Allen - From the Creativity category:

Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force. He who knows this is ready to become something higher and stronger than a bundle of wavering thoughts and fluctuating sensations. He who does this has become the conscious and intelligent wielder of his mental powers. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Criticism category:

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Desire category:

If your real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Destiny category:

Master yourself, then you can master your world. Man is manacled only by himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Destiny category:

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Dreams category:

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall unveil. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Dreams category:

The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Dreams category:

Dreams are the seedlings of realities. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Education category:

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Effort category:

Achievement of any kind is the crown of effort, the diadem of thought. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Effort category:

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)

James Allen - From the Environment category:

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them your world will at last be built. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Failure category:

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Focus category:

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Future category:

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Greatness category:

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Guidance category:

People seek guidance of him who is master of himself. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Happiness category:

Happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Health category:

Strong, pure and happy thoughts build up the body in vigor and grace. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Humanity category:

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Life category:

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Love category:

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Meditation category:

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Peace category:

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Power category:

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Prayer category:

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Progress category:

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Purpose category:

Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. With the majority the bark of thought is allowed to 'drift' upon the ocean of life. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Purpose category:

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Questions category:

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Sacrifice category:

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Strength category:

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Thinking category:

The mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and where they have hitherto woven ignorance and pain they may now weave enlightenment and happiness. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Thought category:

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Wisdom category:

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Work category:

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. (James Allen)