James Allen

Fearlessness accompanies honesty. The honest man has a clear eye and an unflinching gaze. He looks his fellow-men in the face, and his speech is direct and convincing.

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

Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

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.

Every moral act is another solid brick in the temple of prosperity, another round of strength and sculptured beauty in the pillars which support it.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

He who would build both strong and high Must first of all dig deep and low; So rose the spire against the sky, And so doth skill and knowledge grow. So, with well-ordered strenuousness, Raise thou thy structure of Success.

Moral force is the life of all success.

Break away from the tyranny of custom, tradition, conventionality, and the opinions of others, until you succeed in walking lonely and erect against men.

Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals.

Individuals, families, nations grow and prosper in harmony with their growth in moral strength and knowledge; they fall and fail in accordance with their moral decadence.

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.

Prosperity rests upon a moral foundation.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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.

Cherish your vision; 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, if you remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

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

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream, so shall you become.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

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

Rely upon your own judgment; be true to your own conscience; follow the light that is within you; all outward lights are so many will-o’-the-wisps. There will be those who tell you that you are foolish; that your judgment is faulty; that your conscience is all awry, and that the light within you is darkness; but heed them not. If what they say is true, the sooner you, as a searcher of wisdom, find it out the better, and you can only make that discovery by bringing your powers to the test. Therefore, pursue your course bravely.

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

The strong calm man is always loved and revered.

Pure thoughts crystallize into habits of temperance and self-control, which solidify into circumstances of repose and peace. Thoughts of courage, self-reliance, and decision crystallize into manly habits, which solidify into circumstances of success, plenty, and freedom.

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.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

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

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.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.

A man is literally what he thinks.

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.

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.

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

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.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.

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

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.

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

If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.