| "Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results." James Allen |
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| 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 Quotes |
| A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph. James Allen |
| A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. James Allen Quotes |
| Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. James Allen |
| All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts James Allen Adages |
| 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 Adages |
| 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. James Allen Popular Quotes |
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| Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you. James Allen Adages |
| Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. 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. James Allen Remarks |
| evil is not power; it is ignorance and misuse of good. James Allen |
| For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? . James Allen |
| Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. James Allen |
| Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love. James Allen Quotes |
| He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would accomplish much must sacrifice much James Allen Quotations |
| 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. James Allen |
| If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train. James Allen Quotes |
| In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result James Allen |
| Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound James Allen Popular Quotes |
| Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes, so are men consumed by the flames of passions, and their deeds and works fall and perish. James Allen Quotes |
| Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth James Allen |
| The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also -- his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. James Allen Sayings |
| 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. James Allen Adages |
| The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn. James Allen |
| 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. James Allen Remarks |
| 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 |
| 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. 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. James Allen Sayings |
| The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs James Allen Remarks |
| The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become. James Allen Sayings |
| The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. James Allen |
| They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure James Allen |
| Think of your servants with kindness, consider their happiness and comfort, and never demand of them that extremity of service which you yourself would not care to perform were you in their place. James Allen |
| 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. James Allen Quotes |
| 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. James Allen Sayings |
| 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. James Allen Popular Quotes |
| When men, lost in the devious ways of error and self, have forgotten the "heavenly birth," ... they set up artificial standards by which to judge one another James Allen Adages |
| When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness James Allen |
| Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. James Allen Sayings |
| You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Allen Adages |
| You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. James Allen |
| You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration James Allen Remarks |
