James Allen Quotes - Page 4

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

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.

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 - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

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

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

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.

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

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.

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

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

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

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

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

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

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

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

And I may stand where health, success, and power Await my coming, if, each fleeting hour I cling to love and patience; and abide With stainlessness; and never step aside From high integrity; so shall I see At last the land of immortality.