As a Man Thinketh Quotes

“He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened”; for only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the door of the Temple of Knowledge.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours, that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires—and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“THIS little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh ( Free Audiobook)

“Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallises into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage (fruits) of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit; bad thoughts bad fruit.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration:”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Circumstances don’t shape us, so much as they reveal us.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it "luck"; do not see the long and arduous
journey, but only behold the pleasant goal, and call it "good fortune"; do not understand the process, but only perceive the result, and call it "chance.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Man is always the master, even in his weakest and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his "household.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“-which discovery is totally a matter of application, self-analysis, and experience.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances. Man”
― James Allen, As a man tinketh

“To wish the best for all people; to find the good in everything; to be content in all circumstances—such thoughts are the portal to heaven.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master. Of”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“All achievements, whether in the business, intellectual,
or spiritual world, are the result of definitely directed thought, are governed by the same law and are of the same method; the only difference lies in the object of attainment.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“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, As a Man Thinketh

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. No such conditions can exist as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings apart from vicious inclinations, or ascending into virtue and its pure happiness without the continued cultivation of virtuous aspirations; and man, therefore, as the lord and master of thought, is the maker of himself, the shaper and author of environment.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. VISIONS”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“MAN'S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind. Just”
― James Allen, As A Man Thinketh

“They themselves are makers of themselves." by”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“A man's weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man's; they are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another. His condition is also his own, and not another man's. His suffering and his happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains. A”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplished anything, and never can. They always lead to failure.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. His every, thought is allied with power, and all difficulties are bravely met and wisely overcome.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. He”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“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. SERENITY”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Even at birth the soul comes to its own and through every step of its earthly pilgrimage it attracts those combinations of conditions which reveal itself, which are the reflections of its own purity and, impurity, its strength and weakness. Men”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking. To”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor." Now, however, there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say, "One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh