Browse 65 quotes about A Man Thinketh.
“The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.”
“The Bible places supreme value in the thought life. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," Solomon wrote. Jesus asserted that sin's gravity lay in the idea itself, not just the act.
"Paul admonished the church at Philippi to have the mind of Christ, and to the same people he wrote, "Whatever is true ... pure ... if there be any virtue ... think on these things." Thus, the
follower of Christ must demonstrate to the world what it is not just to think, but to think justly.”
“The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.”
Source: As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives
“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.”
“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.”
Source: As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives
“The dreamers are the saviors of the world.”
Source: As You Think: Second Edition
“The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Secret Edition – Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams
“Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.”
Source: The James Allen Companion
“As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Book of Thoughts, Health and Body, Character, Purpose, Achievement, Visions and Ideals (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)
“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.”
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“Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.”
Source: As You Think: Second Edition
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.”
“There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Book of Thoughts, Health and Body, Character, Purpose, Achievement, Visions and Ideals (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)
“Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Secret Edition – Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams
“Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.”
Source: As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives
“As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“Cherish the music that stirs in your heart.”
Source: The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity
“Good thoughts bear good fruit.”
“He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.”
Source: The Secrets of as a Man Thinketh
“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.”
Source: The Book of Inspiration: As a Man Thinketh - AUDIO EDITION OF SELF IMPROVEMENT IDEAS & INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
“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.”
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.”
“A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts.”
Source: As You Think: Second Edition
“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.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”
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“There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.”
Source: As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives
“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”
Source: As You Think - A New Thought Classic for Today's Woman
“A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.”
“Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.”
Source: As You Think: Second Edition
“Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: 3 Perspectives
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be”
“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”
Source: As A Man Thinketh (Annotated with Biography about 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.”
Source: Mind is the Master: The Complete James Allen Treasury
“A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Book of Thoughts, Health and Body, Character, Purpose, Achievement, Visions and Ideals (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)
“Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Book of Thoughts, Health and Body, Character, Purpose, Achievement, Visions and Ideals (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)
“Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.”
Source: The James Allen Companion
“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.”
Source: Automatic Wealth: The Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
“They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“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.”
Source: As A Man Thinketh And The Path Of Prosperity
“Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Secret Edition – Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams
“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Book of Thoughts, Health and Body, Character, Purpose, Achievement, Visions and Ideals (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.”
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh