James Allen Quotes

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

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

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.

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

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

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

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.

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

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 becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

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.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be

And I may stand where health, success, and power Await my coming, if, each fleeting hour I cling to love and patience; and abide With stainlessness; and never step aside From high integrity; so shall I see At last the land of immortality.

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts.

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.

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

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

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.

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.

Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

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

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.

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.

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

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. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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

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

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

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.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.

Man, as a spiritual being, cannot be maintained in strength, uprightness, and peace except if he periodically withdraw himself from the outer world of perishable things and reach inwardly towards the abiding and imperishable realities.