Below are some thoughts and quotes from James Allen in his book As a Man Thinketh. It was a book aged well over 100 years and still selling copies. He has a great story of business sucess that he dropped in order to follow his dream of writing. You can find his booklet, one of his more popular here on Amazon.
Chapter 1:
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the
complete sum of all his thoughts.
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.
Man is the master of thought, the molder of character, and
the maker and shaper of condition, environment and destiny.
For only by patience, practice and ceaseless importunity can
a man enter the door of the temple of knowledge.
Chapter 2:
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.
Every thought seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind,
and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act,
and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance.
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they
are.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are
unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
…not until a man has extirpated every sickly, bitter, and
impure thought from his soul, can he be in a position to know and declare that
his sufferings are the result of his good and not his bad qualifies…
Suffering ceases for him who is pure.
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.
Let him encourage good thoughts, an no hard fate shall bind
him down to wretchedness and shame.
Chapter 3:
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether
they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his
thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts
pure, he no longer desires impure food.
Clean thoughts make clean habits.
To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism,
suspicion, and envy, is to be confined
in a self made prison hole.
Chapter 4:
Until thought is linked with purpose, there is no
intelligent accomplishment.
They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy
prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying’s, all of which are
indications of weakness…
He who has conquers fear and doubt has conquered failure.
Chapter 5-7:
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is
the direct result of his own thoughts.
The higher he lifts his thoughts, the greater will be his
success, the more blessed and enduring will be his achievements.
The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
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