James Allen Quotes about Inspirational

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.

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

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.

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

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

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 key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

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

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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

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.

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

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

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