James Lane Allen Quotes (18 Quotes)

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

We do not attract what we want, but what we are.

Where faith is there is courage, there is fortitude, there is steadfastness and strength.... Faith bestows that sublime courage that rises superior to the troubles and disappointments of life, that acknowledges no defeat except as a step to victory that is strong to endure, patient to wait, and energetic to struggle.... Light up, then, the lamp of faith in your heart.... It will lead you safely through the mists of doubt and the black darkness of despair along the narrow, thorny ways of sickness and sorrow, and over the treacherous places of temptation and uncertainty.

And herein lies the secret of true power. Learn, by constant practice, how to husband your resources, and concentrate them, at any moment, upon a given point.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

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.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

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

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.