James Lane Allen Quotes & Sayings

A man is literally what he thinks. — James Lane Allen

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. — James Lane Allen

The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself. — James Lane Allen

Good thoughts bear good fruit ... — James Lane Allen

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. — James Lane Allen

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

Adversity does not build character,it reveals it — James Lane Allen

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

The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little 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

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. — James Lane Allen

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

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

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier. — James Lane Allen

You cannot travel within and stand still without. — James Lane Allen

We do not attract what we want, but what we are. — James Lane Allen

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. — James Lane Allen

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

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