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Big Ideas from As a Man Thinketh

“Big Ideas” are simply the gems I’ve pulled out of my favorite books/seminars/life lessons. These ones I pulled from As a Man Thinketh

PhilosophersNotes on As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

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Quotes from As a Man Thinketh

Emerson instructed us to "Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul."

  • 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.

    ~ James Allen quotes from As a Man Thinketh

    Self-Development quotes on: Attitude, Thoughts, Strong, Weak

  • 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.

    ~ James Allen quotes from As a Man Thinketh

    Self-Development quotes on: Vision, Purpose, Beauty

  • Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul.

    ~ James Allen quotes from As a Man Thinketh

    Self-Development quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection, Truth

  • The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

    ~ James Allen quotes from As a Man Thinketh

    Self-Development quotes on: Vision, Purpose, Dream

  • The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

    ~ James Allen quotes from As a Man Thinketh

    Self-Development quotes on: Vision, Intent, Achieve, Dream

  • 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.

    ~ James Allen quotes from As a Man Thinketh

    Self-Development quotes on: Attitude, Belief, Fear


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