No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
James Allen

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
James Allen

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
James Allen

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
James Allen

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
James Allen

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
James Allen

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.
James Allen

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

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
James Allen

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

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
James Allen

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

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Allen

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
James Allen