James Lane Allen Quotes

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

You have to recover the capacity to imagine yourself as an ideal and figure out how to project that into the world.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

I'm trying to do something more than just be a champion who wins fights.

You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power

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

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

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

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

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.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

Your vision of where or who you want to be is your greatest asset.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.