Quotes from James Allen
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 Allen
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
- James Allen
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
- James Allen
If you 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 Allen
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
- James Allen
Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.
- James Allen
Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.
- James Allen
Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.
- James Allen
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
- James Allen
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
- James Allen
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
- James Allen
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
- James Allen