James Allen

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.”

“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.”

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you.”

“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.”

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”

“As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract.”

“Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.”

“A man is literally what he thinks.”

“The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.”

“The dreamers are the saviors of the worlds.”

“Self-control is strength.”

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.”

“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.”

“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.”

“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”

“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”

“The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.”

“Men do not attract which they want but that which they are.”

“A person is only by the thoughts that he chooses.”

“A man has to learn that he cannot command things but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others but that he can mold and master his own will.”