66 James Allen Quotes to Inspire You to Believe in Yourself
James Allen (28 November 1864, Leicester, Leicestershire, England – 24 January 1912, Ilfracombe, Devon, England) was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. His best known work, As a Man Thinketh, has been mass-produced since its publication in 1903. It has been a source of inspiration to motivational and self-help authors.
Top 17 Famous James Allen Quotes
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.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.A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.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.A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, “Peace, be still!”The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which the heart is set.Good thoughts and actions never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
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
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
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.
James Allen
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.Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.Let your soul expand, let your heart reach out to others in loving and generous warmth, and great and lasting will be your joy, and all prosperity will come to you.The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
27 Thought-provoking James Allen Quotes
As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract.Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.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.A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking.He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.Man is manacled only by himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate.All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.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.The dreamers are the saviors of the worlds.
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
Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure and all will be pure.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.Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belong neither to the oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.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.Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.Man is the master of thought, the molder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.
There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man’s worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.
James Allen
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.By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection.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…Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry.
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. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.
James Allen
22 James Allen Quotes to Enhance you Courage and Inner Strength
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.Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.It is a process of diverting one’s scattered forces into one powerful channel.Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would accomplish much must sacrifice much. He, who would attain highly, must sacrifice greatly.Blessedness and riches are only joined together when the riches are rightly and wisely used; and the poor man only descends into wretchedness when he regards his lot as a burden unjustly imposed.You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.For you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.
