Quotes about Achievement
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
- James Allen
he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting-point for future power and triumph.
- James Allen
Victories attained by right thought can only be maintained by watchfulness. Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure.
- James Allen
They themselves are makers of themselves.
- James Allen
The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.
- James Allen
The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.
- James Allen
You may be keeping accounts, and presently you shall walk out of the door that for so long has seemed to you the barrier of your ideals, and shall find yourself before an audience—the pen still behind your ear, the ink stains on your fingers and then and there shall pour out the torrent of your inspiration.
- James Allen
a man's worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts
- James Allen
Achievement, of whatever kind, is the crown of effort, the diadem of thought. By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man ascends; by the aid of animality, indolence, impurity, corruption, and confusion of thought a man descends.
- James Allen
Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns.
- James Allen
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
- James Allen
A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak, and abject, and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.
- James Allen