Author Profile
James Allen
1864 – 1912 • British • Author
39
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 39 quotesAs in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.— 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
If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.— James Allen
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
Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.— James Allen
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.— 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 more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.— James Allen
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.— James Allen
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.— 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
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.— James Allen