For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? . James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would accomplish much must sacrifice much. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
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. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
evil is not power; it is ignorance and misuse of good. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes, so are men consumed by the flames of passions, and their deeds and works fall and perish. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its letters incorrectly, but it is painfully difficult to hold the pen and to write properly; and this because of the child's ignorance of the art of writing, which can only be dispelled by persistent effort and practice, until at last, it becomes natural and easy to hold the pen properly, and to write correctly, and difficult, as well as altogether unnecessary, to do the wrong thing. It is the same in the vital things of mind and life. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
As water, when transmuted into steam, becomes a new, more definite and wide-reaching power, so passion, when transmuted into intellectual and moral force, becomes a new life, a new power for the accomplishment of high and unfailing purposes. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
for the majority of instances where money is desired for the admitted object of blessing others, the real underlying motive is a love of popularity, and a desire to pose as a philanthropist or reformer....If your real desire is to do good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0
The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish as to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly truthful person; the envious see envy in every soul; the miser thinks everybody is eager to get his money;...and the abandoned sensualist looks upon the saint as a hypocrite. James Allen New Zealander Statesman More James Allen Quotes 0