Top 25 James Allen Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

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

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

It is a process of diverting one’s scattered forces into one powerful channel.

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

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

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

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

A man is literally what he thinks.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

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 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.

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

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.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.