James Lane Allen Quotes

#1. In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Lane Allen

#2. You cannot travel within and stand still without.

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#3. We do not attract what we want, but what we are.

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#4. The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.

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#5. Adversity does not build character,it reveals it

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#6. Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

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#7. Good thoughts bear good fruit ...

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#8. 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.

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#9. You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

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#10. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

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#11. Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

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#12. The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp
with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain.

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#13. I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

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#14. All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

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#15. A man is literally what he thinks.

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#16. To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

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