Top 160 James Allen Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves;.”

— James Allen

52. “For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”

— James Allen

53. “Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.”

— James Allen

54. “When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.”

— James Allen

55. “The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From the state of a man’s heart doth proceed the conditions of his life; his thoughts blossom into deeds, and his deeds bear the fruitage of character and destiny.”

— James Allen

56. “He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened;.”

— James Allen

57. “UNTIL thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.”

— James Allen

58. “Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.”

— James Allen

59. “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

60. “Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.”

— James Allen

61. “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

62. “As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths of the hearts of people which the storm of sin and sorrow can never disturb. To reach this silence and to live consciously in it is peace.”

— James Allen

63. “A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.”

— James Allen

64. “Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.”

— James Allen

65. “There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.”

— James Allen

66. “What you are, so is your world.”

— James Allen

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

— James Allen

68. “ALL that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct end result of his very own mind.”

— James Allen

69. “Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts. By pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”

— James Allen

70. “The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.”

— James Allen

71. “And I may stand where health, success, and power Await my coming, if, each fleeting hour I cling to love and patience; and abide With stainlessness; and never step aside From high integrity; so shall I see At last the land of immortality.”

— James Allen

72. “You will be what you will to be.”

— James Allen

73. “The strong, calm man is always loved and revered. He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm.”

— James Allen

74. “He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.”

— James Allen

75. “Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.”

— James Allen

76. “Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplished anything, and never can.”

— James Allen

77. “Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.”

— James Allen

78. “The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.”

— James Allen

79. “A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”

— James Allen

80. “Man is made and unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons which will destroy him. He also creates the tools with which he will build for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peach. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and their master.”

— James Allen

81. “Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction.”

— James Allen

82. “Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.”

— James Allen

83. “Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, ‘I and my Father are One.’”

— James Allen

84. “The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.”

— James Allen

85. “Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.”

— James Allen

86. “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.”

— James Allen

87. “He must avoid quarrelling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.”

— James Allen

88. “If one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow – sure.”

— James Allen

89. “Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.”

— James Allen

90. “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

91. “The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.”

— James Allen

92. “MAN’S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.”

— James Allen

93. “Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.”

— James Allen

94. “Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this – that man is the master of thought, the moulder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.”

— James Allen

95. “Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.”

— James Allen

96. “When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.”

— James Allen

97. “All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.”

— James Allen

98. “THE aphorism, “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he,” not only embraces the whole of a man’s being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”

— James Allen

99. “The studied elimination of non-essentials from one’s daily life is a vital factor in all great achievement.”

— James Allen

100. “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