James Allen quotes

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.