James Allen Quotes

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.

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.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.

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.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.