James Allen
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Health
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.Collection: Good
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Courage
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.Collection: Thankful
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.Collection: Intelligence
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.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Truth
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.Collection: Fear
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?Collection: Success
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.Collection: Knowledge
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.Collection: Strength
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.Collection: Great
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.Collection: Happiness
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.Collection: Life
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.
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
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.
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 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.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
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.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
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 very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
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.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
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.Collection: Life
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.Collection: Self
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.Collection: Spiritual
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.Collection: Positive
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.Collection: Love
A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.Collection: Men
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.Collection: Men
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.Collection: Inspirational
Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Mistake
The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Inspirational
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Beautiful