James Lane Allen Professions : Novelist Born : December 21, 1849 Died : February 18, 1925 Browse All Authors Top 24 quotes by James Lane Allen Adversity does not build character,it reveals it James Lane Allen adversity doe character 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. James Lane Allen positive-thinking education fall Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. James Lane Allen determine circumstances men 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. James Lane Allen dream success positive 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. James Lane Allen success attitude fall You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. James Lane Allen motivational inspirational sports As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Lane Allen love-you attitude travel The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself. James Lane Allen spirituality stars light We do not attract what we want, But what we are. James Lane Allen want You cannot travel within and stand still without. James Lane Allen law-of-attraction positive-thinking travel Good thoughts bear good fruit. James Lane Allen fruit honesty bears The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal. James Lane Allen running animal country I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier. James Lane Allen weak-man power men But the finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the hanging shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear. James Lane Allen wall stars flower 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. James Lane Allen virginia remembrance book Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. James Lane Allen thoughts bad good fruit The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. James Lane Allen person will always life 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. James Lane Allen think failure strong purpose Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. James Lane Allen thoughts will results work A man is literally what he thinks. James Lane Allen literally thinks he man Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
