James Allen Quotes

The motivation to do anything - like change your entire life around - doesn't just come from some magical, mystical place within you. Action is both the effect of motivation and the cause of it.

Know yourself and go in swinging.

I'm always trying to improve.

You have to challenge yourself and things happen from there.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

The best way to be, is to do.

I would just say that I have high expecations for myself.

I think you should always push yourself to want to grow and learn more and be inspired and develop.

I just wanted to keep getting better and better and better, and that's just my mindset.

Every year you want to keep elevating you. And that's what I want to do.

Anyone can be something. Leaders want to do something.

That's the type of person I am - I always want to do better.

If you try to be better every day, more miracles happen in your life.

Obviously when you challenge yourself you learn a lot about yourself, and ultimately you're going to get better in whatever field.

I want to keep getting better.

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

I like to challenge myself.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.