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Who is James Allen:
James Allen was a British philosopher and writer best known for his inspiring publications. He is best known for his work “As a Man Thinketh,” which has been extensively read and influential since its original publication in 1903.
James Allen was born in Leicester, England in 1864 and died in 1912. Allen writes in “As a Man Thinketh” about the power of thoughts and how they affect our life. The book is a philosophical examination of the power of thinking and its function in forming one’s personality and surroundings.
Allen also published numerous more books, including “The Path of Prosperity” “The Way of Peace,” and “Byways of Blessedness,” all of which emphasize the power of thinking in molding our lives and the significance of living according to one’s ideals.
James Allen Quotes From Aa a Man Thinketh Book
The universe does not favor the greedy, or the dishonest, the universe helps the honest, the magnanimous, and the virtuous.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
Self-control is strength. The right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater his success, his influence, and his power for good. The calmness of the mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
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.
There can be no progress and no achievement without sacrifice.
The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
For true success ask yourself these four questions:
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they, therefore, remain bound.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
He who would accomplish little needs to sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
In all human affairs, there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
Thought is the fountain of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, this you will become.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that the right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about the right results.
There can be no progress and no achievement without sacrifice.
Mind is the master weaver, both the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.
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 toward him.
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
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.
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.
The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.
The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.
Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.
The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: the environment is but his looking glass.
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.
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
The act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.
Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.
Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.
He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.
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.
UNTIL thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
It is a process of diverting one’s scattered forces into one powerful channel.
He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.
Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, ‘I and my Father are One.
And you, too, youthful reader, will realize the Vision (not the idle wish) of your heart.
Man is made or unmade by himself. He holds the key to every situation.
There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.
Blessedness, not material possessions, is virtue, desiring material possessions is the measure of wrong thought.
Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.[/alert-warning]
The strong, calm man is always loved and revered. He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm.
Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and you can find every truth connected with your being, if you will dig deep into the mine of your soul.