Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by James Allen

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

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.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

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.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

A man is literally what he thinks.

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

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

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

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.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

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

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

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

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.

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.

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

Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

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.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

Man, as a spiritual being, cannot be maintained in strength, uprightness, and peace except if he periodically withdraw himself from the outer world of perishable things and reach inwardly towards the abiding and imperishable realities.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

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.

Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.