- James Allen (linebacker) (born 1979), American football linebacker
- James Allen (running back)James Allen (running back)James Allen is a former American football running back for the Chicago Bears, rushing for over 1100 yards in 2000, before being displaced as starter by Anthony Thomas. He caught a Hail Mary pass from Shane Matthews that was tipped by David Terrell to tie a game against the Cleveland Browns in...
(born 1975), American football running back - James Allen (Army engineer) (1806–1846), organizer of the Mormon Battalion, helped found Des Moines, Iowa, and helped design the Chicago harbor
- James Allen (Australian colonial author)James Allen (Australian colonial author)James Allen was an English-born writer, journalist and newspaper owner, who worked in colonial Australia and New Zealand.Allen was born at Birmingham in 1806, and educated at Horton College...
(1806-1886), English-born writing in colonial Australia and New Zealand - James Allen (author)James Allen (author)James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. His best known work, As a Man Thinketh, has been mass produced since its publication in 1903...
(1864–1912), philosophical writer from England - James Allen (collector)James Allen (collector)James Allen is an American antique collector, known in particular for his collection of 145 photographs of lynchings in America, published in 2000 with Jon Lewis as Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America...
, antique collector, co-author of Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (2000). - James Allen (cricketer)James Allen (cricketer)James Allen was an English first class cricketer who played for Northamptonshire. Both his games were for Northamptonshire.-External links:*...
(1881–1958), English cricketer - James Allen (engraver) (died 1831), English line engraver
- James Allen (formerly Alleyn) (1683–1746), eighteenth century English educationalist
- James Allen (highwayman)James Allen (highwayman)James Allen was a Massachusetts resident and highwayman in the early 19th century....
(19th century), Massachusetts criminal and memoirist - James Allen (journalist) (born 1966), who has worked in, and commentated, Formula One
- James Allen (Medal of Honor) (1843–1913), Medal of Honor recipient during the American Civil War
- James Allen (New Zealand)James Allen (New Zealand)Sir James Allen, GCMG, KCB was a prominent New Zealand politician and diplomat. He held a number of the most important political offices in the country, including Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was also New Zealand's Minister of Defence during World War I.-Early life:Allen...
(1855–1942), Cabinet Minister - James Allen (nurseryman)James Allen (nurseryman)James Allen was a nurseryman of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, United Kingdom, known principally for his hybridizations of snowdrops and anemones. He is credited with the discovery of Galanthus ×allenii ....
(died 1906), British nurseryman - James Allen (priest) (1802–1897), Anglican Dean of St David's, 1878 - 1895
- James Allen (U.S.
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.So you will be, what you "will" to be.Let failure find its false content,In that poor word "environment,"But spirit scorns it and is free.
The human will, that force unseen,The offspring of a deathless soul,Can work away at any goal,Though walls of granite intervene.
Be not impatient and delay,But wait, as one who understands.When spirit rises and commands,The gods are ready to obey.
The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know.
Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven.
He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
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.
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve. Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive."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.