Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.
JAMES ALLENFor true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
More James Allen Quotes
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A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
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As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
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He no longer acts from self but does what is right – what is universally and eternally right.
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The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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You will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.
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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.
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No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
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Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
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They themselves are makers of themselves.
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Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
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As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
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The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and purity of intention, they attract to their person solely positive outcomes.
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To desire is to obtain to aspire is to achieve.
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Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.
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He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass.
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