James Lane Allen

“The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.”

“You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.”

“Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.”

“The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear.”

“Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.”

“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.”

“As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”

“The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.”

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.”

“We do not attract what we want, but what we are.”

“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.”

“A man is literally what he thinks.”

“You cannot travel within and stand still without.”

“He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.”