James Allen

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

— James Allen

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

— James Allen

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

— James Allen

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

— James Allen

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

— James Allen

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

— James Allen

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

— James Allen

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.

— James Allen

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.

— James Allen

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.

— James Allen

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.

— James Allen

None but right acts can follow right thoughts; none but a right life can follow right acts; and by living a right life all blessedness is achieved.

— James Allen

The heart that sins must sorrow.

— James Allen

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.

— James Allen

Love and grief our hearts dividing,Life deriving from His death.

— James Allen

Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,Environment is but his looking-glass.

— James Allen

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

— James Allen

The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.But spirit scorns it and is free.

— James Allen

The human will, that force unseen,Though walls of granite intervene.

— James Allen

Be not impatient in delays,The gods are ready to obey.

— James Allen

As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and good will and serenity.

— James Allen

The dreamers are the saviours 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. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know.

— James Allen

Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven.

— James Allen

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

— James Allen

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.

— James Allen

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve. Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive."Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you 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.

— James Allen

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.

— James Allen

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.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.

— James Allen

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

— James Allen

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought evolved being, for such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees more and more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect he ceases to fuss and fume and worry and grieve, and remains poised, steadfast, serene.

— James Allen

The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.

— James Allen

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

— James Allen