James Lane Allen Quotes

I only focus on what I can do.

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

Happiness just doesn't happen. You have to force yourself.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

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.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

I think every day you wake up, and you do the best you can do that day.

I can control what I can control. I just focus on me, and that's it.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

I can control my attitude, and I can control my game.

My strength was probably more the mental side of the game rather than the skill side. I always had that self-belief that I was good enough. You have got to believe you are good enough, otherwise there is no point to it.

Make up your mind what you want to do, and go and get it. Make sure it is not at the expense of anyone else, though.

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

Positive mental attitude is determined by you. Not others.

By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

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

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.