As a Man Thinketh (James Allen)

Quotes from As a Man Thinketh by James Allen:

• A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
• Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
• The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
• As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
• A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
• A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
• A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.
• Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.
• He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
• As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.
• Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.
• The body is the servant of the mind.
• for you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.