James Allen

"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."

"A man's wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions."

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."

"Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man, grasping all, loses everything."

"It is granted only to the heart that abounds with integrity, trust, generosity and love to realize true prosperity. The heart that is not possessed of these qualities cannot know prosperity, for prosperity, like happiness, is not an outward possession, but an inward realization."

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you 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."

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."

"The greedy man may become a millionaire, but he will always be wretched, and mean, and poor, and will even consider himself outwardly poor so long as there is a man in the world who is richer than himself, whilst the upright, the open-handed and loving will realize a full and rich prosperity, even though their outward possessions may be small."

"He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has."

"All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is a direct result of his own thoughts."

"In all human affairs there are efforts, there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the results."