James Allen Quotes

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

Things don't weigh me down any more. I confront things, and I move on. I don't dwell on things; I don't let things simmer under the surface. I am where it starts and where it ends. I have the power in my life to be happy.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.