James Allen Quotes (86 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.

    Many times they would lynch someone by a railroad track so that passing trains would see and pass the word on and also as a form of intimidation to people in surrounding black community.

    Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and prayers.

    The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

    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.


    As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances.

    Every man is where he is by the law of his being the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there.

    Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

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

    No one was required to have this benefit until three years ago.

    He who would be useful, strong, and happy, must cease being a passive receptacle for the negative, beggardly, 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.

    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.

    The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

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

    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.

    The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors that which it loves, and also that which it fears it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations it falls to the level of its unchastened desires. Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own furtive of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit bad thought, bad fruit.

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

    The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind of him that encounters it.

    You will become as small as your dominate desire as great as your dominate aspiration.

    It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and that Spiritual Principles can be apprehended by this method.

    Part of the reason of the survey is to look for current information on what people are doing, what their risks are and what their level of knowledge is,

    Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

    The outer world or circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought, and both pleasant and unpleasant external conditions are factors which make for the ultimate good of the individual. As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both by suffering and bliss.

    The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge selfishness by Love.


    He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

    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.

    We hope people will walk away with the idea that this was a very frequent act of violence, ... We won't be able to deny it any longer.

    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.

    Your difficulty is not contained, primarily, in the situation which gave rise to it, but in the mental state with which you regard that situation and which you bring to bear upon it.

    The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish as to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly truthful person the envious see envy in every soul the miser thinks everybody is eager to get his money...and the abandoned sensualist looks upon the saint as a hypocrite

    All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

    To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

    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.

    We clothe events with the drapery of our own thoughts....

    One of the challenges that we have as we move forward in the early part of the 21st century is to understand how we can help people make the right choices to understand that they have real control of a lot of the health risks in their lives,


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