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 ALLENHe thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: the environment is but a looking glass.
More James Allen Quotes
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The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.
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Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.
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The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
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He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: the environment is but a looking glass.
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All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
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When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.
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Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
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To desire is to obtain to aspire is to achieve.
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Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.
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They who have no central purpose in their life fall easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings.
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They themselves are makers of themselves.
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A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
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