There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.
JAMES ALLENAimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
More James Allen Quotes
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The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
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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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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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Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
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Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
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To desire is to obtain to aspire is to achieve.
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Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.
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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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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.
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If your 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.
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The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
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Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
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Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has.
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