James Allen Quotes

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

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

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

“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”

“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”

“There can be no progress, no achievement, without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices.”

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

“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.”

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

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.”

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

“Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts.”

“Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself.”

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

“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”

“Visionaries are the saviors of the world.”