Quotes and Sayings by James Allen

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

A man is literally what he thinks.

It is a process of diverting one’s scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

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: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

It is a process of diverting one’s scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

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.

To 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.