Category: James Allen Quotes

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

Only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the Door of the Temple of Knowledge. ~ James Allen

Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state. ~James Allen

As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation, and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which he may make himself what he wills. ~ James Allen

Man is the master of thought, the moulder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny. ~ James Allen

Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. ~ James Allen

A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favour or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts. An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the result of the continued harbouring of grovelling thoughts. ~ James Allen

Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. ~ James Allen

Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits. ~ James Allen

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself. ~…