James Allen

“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

#Inspirational #Dream #Sleep

“There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.”
-- James Allen

#Confused #Sacrifice #Men

“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

#Strength #Achievement #Effort

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

#Thank You #Appreciation #Gratitude

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

“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, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.”
-- James Allen

#Fall #Loss #Self

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

#Change #Ignorance #Men

“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.”
-- James Allen

#Love #Beauty #Military

“If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.”
-- James Allen

#Real #Opportunity #Waiting

“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.”
-- James Allen

#Character #Men #Shapes

“A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.”
-- James Allen

#Men #Grieving #Worry

“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

#Inspirational #Men #People

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”
-- James Allen

#Inspirational #Positive #Success

“Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.”
-- James Allen

#Beautiful #Peace #Jewels

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

#Encouraging #Inspiration #Not Giving Up

“Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.”
-- James Allen

#Running #Men #Garden

“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

#Inspirational #Life #Happiness

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

#Men #Law Of Attraction #Conquer

“To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.”
-- James Allen

#Inspirational #Passion #Desire

“No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.”
-- James Allen

#Heart #Men #Temptation

“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

#Positive #Men #Want

“Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.”
-- James Allen

#Inspirational #Happiness #Harmony

“Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.”
-- James Allen

#Love #Inspirational #Spiritual

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.”
-- James Allen

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

“The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.”
-- James Allen

#Congratulations #Men #Practice

“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.”
-- James Allen

#Winning #Doubt #Literature

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

#Mind #Body #Operations

“A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.”
-- James Allen

#Wise #Ignorance #Men

“Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.”
-- James Allen

#Life #Men #People

“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