Top 160 James Allen Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it – Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. – Goethe.”

— James Allen

102. “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

103. “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

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

— James Allen

105. “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

106. “Thoughts of fear, doubt, and indecision crystallise into weak, unmanly, and irresolute habits, which solidify into circumstances of failure, indigence and slavish dependence.”

— James Allen

107. “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

108. “To put away aimlessness and weakness, and 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; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.”

— James Allen

109. “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.”

— James Allen

110. “A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.”

— James Allen

111. “The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.”

— James Allen

112. “Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being. The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure. Suffering ceases for him who is pure. There could be no object in burning gold after the dross had been removed, and a perfectly pure and enlightened being could not suffer.”

— James Allen

113. “He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has.”

— James Allen

114. “But do you really mean to say that outward circumstances do not affect our minds?” I do not say that, but I say this, and know it to be an infallible truth, that circumstances can only affect you in so far as you allow them to do so.”

— James Allen

115. “All things at last yield to the silent, irresistible, all conquering energy of purpose.”

— James Allen

116. “If you would protect your body, guard your mind. If you would renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.”

— James Allen

117. “Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.”

— James Allen

118. “Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his “household.”

— James Allen

119. “We don’t get what we wish and pray for, we get what we justly earn. Our wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with our thoughts and actions.”

— James Allen

120. “All evil is corrective and remedial, and is therefore not permanent. It.”

— James Allen

121. “The weakest soul, knowing its own weakness, and believing this truth that strength can only be developed by effort and practice, will, thus believing, at once begin to exert itself, and, adding effort to effort, patience to patience, and strength to strength, will never cease to develop, and will at last grow divinely strong.”

— James Allen

122. “The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and purity of intention, they attract to their person solely positive outcomes. To.”

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123. “The Temple of Righteousness is built and its four walls are the four Principles – Purity, Wisdom, Compassion, Love. Peace is its roof; its floor Steadfastness, its entrance-door is Selfless Duty, its atmosphere is Inspiration, and its music is the Joy of the perfect.”

— James Allen

124. “How insignificant mere money seeking looks in comparison with a serene life – a life that dwells in the ocean of Truth, beneath the waves, beyond the reach of tempests, in the Eternal Calm! “How.”

— James Allen

125. “There is no room for a complainer in a universe of law, and worry is soul-suicide. By your very attitude of mind you are strengthening the chains which bind you, and are drawing about you the darkness by which you are enveloped, Alter your outlook upon life, and your outward life will alter.”

— James Allen

126. “Self-seeking is self-destruction.”

— James Allen

127. “By earnest self-examination strive to realize, and not merely hold as a theory, that evil is a passing phase, a self-created shadow; that all your pains, sorrows and misfortunes have come to you by a process of undeviating and absolutely perfect law; have come to you because you deserve and require them, and that by first enduring, and then understanding them, you may be made stronger, wiser, nobler.”

— James Allen

128. “Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is, and always was, justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet unevolved self.”

— James Allen

129. “Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.”

— James Allen

130. “One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.”

— James Allen

131. “As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them. This applies equally to those acts called “spontaneous” and “unpremeditated” as to those, which are deliberately executed.”

— James Allen

132. “Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns.”

— James Allen

133. “He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Columbus cherished a vision of another world, and he discovered it; Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe, and he revealed it; Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it.”

— James Allen

134. “A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.”

— James Allen

135. “The cynic sees the hat and coat, and thinks he sees the man. The sympathetic seer sees the man, and is not concerned with the hat and coat.”

— James Allen

136. “Circumstance does not make the man;.”

— James Allen

137. “Nothing is mine to claim or to command, But all is mine to know and understand.”

— James Allen

138. “To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion, and envy, is to be confined in a self made prison-hole.”

— James Allen

139. “The measure of a man’s truth is the measure of his love, and Truth is far removed from him whose life is not governed by Love.”

— James Allen

140. “All things are mirrors in which you see yourself reflected, and the gloom which you perceive in your work is but a reflection of that mental state which you bring to it. Bring a right, an unselfish, state of heart to the.”

— James Allen

141. “Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows, is the.”

— James Allen

142. “Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.”

— James Allen

143. “Truth is nothing if not unchangeable, and in so far as a man takes his stand upon Truth does he become steadfast in virtue, does he rise superior to his passions and emotions and changeable personality.”

— James Allen

144. “The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.”

— James Allen

145. “Let a man cease from his sinful thoughts, and all the world will soften towards him, and be ready to help him; let him put away his weakly and sickly thoughts, and lo, opportunities will spring up on every hand to aid his strong resolves; let him encourage good thoughts, and no hard fate shall bind him down to wretchedness and shame.”

— James Allen

146. “In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized. The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, this you will become. SERENITY.”

— James Allen

147. “A man does not come to the almshouse or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by the pathway of grovelling thoughts and base desires.”

— James Allen

148. “Every man is where he is by the law of his being;.”

— James Allen

149. “Turn the disadvantage to account by utilizing it for the gaining of mental and spiritual strength, and.”

— James Allen

150. “The man of virtue will bridle his tongue, and thus learn how rightly to govern the mind. He will not let his tongue run idly and foolishly, but will make his speech strong and pure, and will either talk with a purpose or remain silent.”

— James Allen