Category: James Allen Quotes

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice, and a man’s worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

Not having commenced to manfully control his thoughts, he is not in a position to control affairs and to adopt serious responsibilities. He is not fit to act independently and stand alone. But he is limited only by the thoughts, which he chooses.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless that weaker is willing to be helped.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

A man’s weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man’s; they are brought about by himself.

Individual responsibility must be absolute.

Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force: he who knows this is ready to become something higher and stronger than a mere bundle of wavering thoughts and fluctuating sensations; he who does this has become the conscious and intelligent wielder of his mental powers.

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

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.