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As a Man Thinketh
James AllenFamous James Allen Quotes
“The dreamers are the saviours of the world.”
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Visions and Ideals
Context: The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know.
“When spirit rises and commands,
The gods are ready to obey.”
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Effect of Thought on Circumstances
Context: Be not impatient in delays,
But wait, as one who understands.
When spirit rises and commands,
The gods are ready to obey.
“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.”
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As A Man Thinketh (1902), Visions and Ideals
Context: To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve. Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive."
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen Quotes about the world
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Effect of Thought on Circumstances
Context: The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.
You will be, what you "will" to be.
Let failure find its false content,
In that poor word "environment,"
But spirit scorns it and is free.
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Visions and Ideals
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Visions and Ideals
James Allen Quotes about heart
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Visions and Ideals
Context: In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.
The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart — this you will build your life by, this you will become.
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Serenity
As reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 371
“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.”
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Visions and Ideals
James Allen Quotes
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Serenity
Context: The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
“As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.”
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“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”
As A Man Thinketh (1902)
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“A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.”
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“To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve.”
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Visions and Ideals
Source: As a Man Thinketh
Context: To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve. Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive."
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
“Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.”
As A Man Thinketh (1902)
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.”
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As A Man Thinketh (1902), Serenity
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“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
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As A Man Thinketh (1902), Visions and Ideals
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Visions and Ideals
As A Man Thinketh (1902)
Variant: Mind is the Master Power that molds and makes, And we are mind. And ever more we take the tool of thought, and shaping what we will, bring forth a thousand joys, or a thousand ills. We think in secret, and it comes to pass, environment, is but our looking glass.
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Effect of Thought on Circumstances
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Effect of Thought on Health and the Body
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Serenity
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Serenity
