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.
Interpretation
This quote encourages individuals to value their dreams and ideals as the foundation for creating a fulfilling life.
James Allen emphasizes the importance of cherishing one's visions, ideals, and the beauty found within. He suggests that these inner treasures are the seeds from which a wonderful reality can grow, highlighting the need for commitment to one's dreams in order to manifest them into the world. By staying true to these cherished thoughts and feelings, one can ultimately shape a desirable life and environment.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing passions.
A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.
God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.
Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others.
Coaches will say that it's not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.
For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up -- this one is for you.
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.
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