As A Man Thinketh

James Allen's most famous book, As a Man Thinketh, was originally published in
1902. It is now considered a classic self-help book. Its underlying premise is
that noble thoughts make a noble person, while lowly thoughts make a miserable
person.. Allen's books illustrate the use of the power of thought to increase
personal capabilities. Although he never achieved great fame or wealth, his
works continue to influence people around the world, including the New Thought
movement. Some of the Greatest Quotes From As a Man Thinketh: \- Men do not
attract what they want, but what they are. \- A man is literally what he
thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. \- 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. \- 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. \- Men are
anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve
themselves, they therefore remain bound. \- Every action and feeling is
preceded by a thought. \- Right thinking begins with the words we say to
ourselves. \- Circumstance does not make the man, it reveals him to himself.
\- You cannot travel within and stand still without. \- 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.
\- Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has
built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his
life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which
cannot err.