James Allen Quotes
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.
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.
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.
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.
Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
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.
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
He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little he who would achieve much must sacrifice much he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as you dominant aspiration.
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.
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.
Things you might hear, Things you wanna believe, Things that aren't true, Things that people say, It's these THINGS that causes people to feel not wanted.
In a justly ordereduniverse, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.
A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.