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James Allen Art Quotes - (21 quotes)

James Allen - From the Achievement category:

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Achievement category:

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. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Artists category:

Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage – these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived. Without them, laboring humanity would perish. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Choices category:

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Colour category:

The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colors which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Confidence category:

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Creativity category:

Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force. He who knows this is ready to become something higher and stronger than a bundle of wavering thoughts and fluctuating sensations. He who does this has become the conscious and intelligent wielder of his mental powers. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Destiny category:

Master yourself, then you can master your world. Man is manacled only by himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Dreams category:

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 unveil. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Dreams category:

The dreamers are the saviors 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. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Dreams category:

Dreams are the seedlings of realities. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Education category:

A 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)

James Allen - From the Effort category:

Achievement of any kind is the crown of effort, the diadem of thought. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Environment category:

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them your world will at last be built. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Health category:

Strong, pure and happy thoughts build up the body in vigor and grace. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Peace category:

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Progress category:

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Purpose category:

Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. With the majority the bark of thought is allowed to 'drift' upon the ocean of life. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Sacrifice category:

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Thinking category:

The mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and where they have hitherto woven ignorance and pain they may now weave enlightenment and happiness. (James Allen)

James Allen - From the Wisdom category:

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought. (James Allen)

Editor: Robert Genn

Consultants: Sara Genn, Richard Thompson
Technical Support and Presentation: Andrew Niculescu

Associate Editors:
Scott Altman, Bonnie Austin, Karen Austin, Michele Becker, Joe Blodgett, Norman Brown, Alyce Bryson, Leanne Cadden, Penny Duane, Max Elliot, Derek Franklin, Mardy Grothe, Harry Hartley, Sue Holland, Shawn Jackson, Sue Legault, Tammy McManus, Eric Mewhinney, Bruce Miller, Laura Parrish, Andrea Pratt, Dan Roberts, Shirley Rochon, Gilbert Roy, John Sherlock, Victor Wong,

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