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• We do not attract what we want, but what we are.

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• He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• You cannot travel within and stand still without.

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• Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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• 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.

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• Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

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• The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

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• Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• A man is literally what he thinks.

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• 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.

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• You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

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

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James Lane Allen (16)

Birth:	21st December, 1849
Death:	18th February, 1925
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

James Lane Allen was born in Kentucky, USA. He was an American novelist. He educated at Transylvania University. He wrote several novels include: A Kentucky Cardinal, The Choir Invisible, The Reign of Law, The Mettle Of The Pasture, The Bride of the Mistletoe, The Doctor's Christmas Eve, A Cathedral Singer, The Kentucky Warbler, and The Alabaster Box.

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