James Allen
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
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 put away aimlessness and weakness, and 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; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
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.
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
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 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.
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.
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.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
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.
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.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.