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16 quotes from As a man thinketh by James Allen. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #4507 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
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.
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.
ALL that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power.
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself No such conditions can exist as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings apart from vicious inclinations, or ascending into virtue and its pure happiness without the continued cultivation of virtuous aspirations; and man, therefore, as the lord and master of thought, is the maker of himself the shaper and author of environment.
A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favour or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts.
THE body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.
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.
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.
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve.