James Allen Quotes

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God.

I believe in life. I know that life comes in at your heart and it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a filmmaker or a gentleman on the street, it comes at you. What Scientology gives me is the tools to deal with that, to better enjoy my life and to be able to contribute more.

Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

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.