Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
JAMES ALLENCircumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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 ALLENYou cannot travel within and stand still without.
JAMES ALLENTo begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
JAMES ALLENHe must avoid quarreling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.
JAMES ALLENA man’s worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts.
JAMES ALLENA person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
JAMES ALLENAimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
JAMES ALLENThe circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
JAMES ALLENYou will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.
JAMES ALLENAs a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.
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 ALLENThe sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.
JAMES ALLENHe who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
JAMES ALLENAnother hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows.
JAMES ALLENSuffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction.
JAMES ALLEN