James Allen Quotes:
As a Man Thinketh

James Allen quotes inspire us to focus our thoughts in the direction of our dreams, for all we achieve is the result of our thoughts.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts

James Allen Quotes (1864-1912)
An Unrewarded Genius

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

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

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

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

A man is literally what he thinks.

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

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

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.

The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

James Allen
As A Man Thinketh

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.

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.

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

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

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.

As water, when transmuted into steam, becomes a new, more definite and wide-reaching power, so passion, when transmuted into intellectual and moral force, becomes a new life, a new power for the accomplishment of high and unfailing purposes.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.

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

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

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

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.

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

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.

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

When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its letters incorrectly, but it is painfully difficult to hold the pen and to write properly; and this because of the child's ignorance of the art of writing, which can only be dispelled by persistent effort and practice, until at last, it becomes natural and easy to hold the pen properly, and to write correctly, and difficult, as well as altogether unnecessary, to do the wrong thing. It is the same in the vital things of mind and life.

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

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.

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