black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

James Allen

Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts.
JAMES ALLEN

Beautiful Heart Music Yourself
Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.
JAMES ALLEN

Doubt Enemy Fear Himself Knowledge
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
JAMES ALLEN

Action Failure Man Result
A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
JAMES ALLEN

Deep Direction Man
What you are, so is your world.
JAMES ALLEN

One Liner Spiritual World Yourself
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
JAMES ALLEN

Character Fate
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that the right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about the right results.
JAMES ALLEN

Effort Joy Peace Result Right
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
JAMES ALLEN

Goodness Spiritual
A man’s worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts.
JAMES ALLEN

Fate Life Man Philosophy World
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

Heart Mindset Vision Yourself
One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.
JAMES ALLEN

Man Oppression Slave
Every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought.
JAMES ALLEN

Act Hide Man
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice, he ascends.
JAMES ALLEN

Choice Himself Man Right
Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.
JAMES ALLEN

Body Health Virtue
So you will be what you will to be.
JAMES ALLEN

Be Yourself One Liner
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
JAMES ALLEN

Character Himself Man Thinking

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More James Allen Quotes