James Allen Quotes

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

Self-control is true power.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.