Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about James Allen
James Allen Quotes
77 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.
James Allen
Source
Report...
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.
The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart — this you will build your life by, this you will become.
James Allen
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
Empty whims, ephemeral fancies, vague desires, and half-hearted resolutions have no place in purpose. In the sustained determination to accomplish there is an invincible power which swallows up all inferior considerations and marches direct to victory.
James Allen
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.
James Allen
Source
Report...
Aspiration is the twin angel to inspiration. It unlocks the gates of joy.
James Allen
Source
Report...
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
James Allen
Source
Report...
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.
James Allen
Source
Report...
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
James Allen
Source
Report...
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
James Allen
Source
Report...
Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven.
James Allen
Source
Report...
Aspiration makes all things possible. It opens the way to advancement. Even the highest state of perfection conceivable it brings near and makes real and possible; for that which can be conceived can be achieved.
James Allen
Source
Report...
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.
James Allen
Source
Report...
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
James Allen
Source
Report...
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
James Allen
Source
Report...
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
James Allen
Source
Report...
They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness.
James Allen
Source
Report...
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
James Allen
Source
Report...
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
James Allen
Source
Report...
As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
James Allen
Source
Report...
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.
James Allen
Source
Report...
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
1
2
3
4
Quote of the day
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
James Allen
Creative Commons
Born:
November 28, 1864
Died:
January 24, 1912
(aged 47)
Bio:
James Allen 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.
Most used words:
man
thoughts
result
mind
life
beautiful
strong
circumstances
heart
soul
calm
strength
purpose
achieve
sweet
James Allen on Wikipedia
James Allen works on Gutenberg Project
James Allen works on Wikisource
Suggest an edit or a new quote
James Allen Quotes
James Allen Short Quotes
British Poet Quotes
Poet Quotes
19th-century Poet Quotes
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes