They who have no central purpose in their life fall easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings.
JAMES ALLENThey who have no central purpose in their life fall easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings.
JAMES ALLENYour vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
JAMES ALLENIf 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.
JAMES ALLENThe “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
JAMES ALLENThe more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
JAMES ALLENYou will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.
JAMES ALLENYour circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.
JAMES ALLENHe 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.
JAMES ALLENCircumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.
JAMES ALLENMen are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they, therefore, remain bound.
JAMES ALLENA man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
JAMES ALLENThe circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
JAMES ALLENThe 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 ALLENAs a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
JAMES ALLENHe no longer acts from self but does what is right – what is universally and eternally right.
JAMES ALLENA man’s worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts.
JAMES ALLEN