Quotes By James Allen

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

A man is literally what he thinks.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

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

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

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

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.

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

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

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

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

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.

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

If you 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.

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.

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.

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

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

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. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

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.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

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

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

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