James Allen Quotes

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

Fear doesn't enter into my vocabulary. Fear is the gateway to the next step in my development.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

It's about staying ahead of what happened yesterday. When you just in your mind think...nothing's going to stop me. I don't care how I felt yesterday. I'm gonna go out today and do what I know I can do. If you can just tell yourself...no I'm stronger than this, no I'm better than this, no I'm faster than this, no I'm tougher than this. I think you can make it through situations that your never thought possible.

Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you think, 'Why is the world doing this to me?' But you have to pick yourself up again. That's what makes you a better athlete.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.