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James Allen

24 quotes

The identity of James Allen may be elusive, but the power of their words is anything but. The range of their thinking — from Truth to Success — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 27 quotes from James Allen, each offering a different angle on Truth, Success, Power, Happiness, and Failure. As James Allen put it: "Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony."

“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

Intelligence

All Quotes by James Allen

“As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”

— James Allen

Travel

“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

Dreams

“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

Intelligence

“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.”

— James Allen

Happiness

“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.”

— James Allen

Failure

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

— James Allen

Knowledge

“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.”

— James Allen

Courage

“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

Inspirational

“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.”

— James Allen

Money

“Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.”

— James Allen

Happiness

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

— James Allen

Life

“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.”

— James Allen

Truth

“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

Failure

“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.”

— James Allen

Power

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.”

— James Allen

Men

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.”

— James Allen

Work

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”

— James Allen

Success

“He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.”

— James Allen

Failure

“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

Dreams

“You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.”

— James Allen

Great