James Allen Quotes

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Man is a universe within himself.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I'm not in charge of my life.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only real leverage you get in life is yourself.