James Allen Quotes

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

If you think you're something long enough, eventually, you just turn into it.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

As you think, so shall you become.

Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he becomes.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

I've been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I'm a believer in the idea that your thought is the only thing that matters.

Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.

Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

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

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

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Belief creates the actual fact.