Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
Interpretation
Self-control and calmness empower us, while right thinking leads to mastery over ourselves.
This quote by James Allen emphasizes the importance of self-discipline and clear thinking in achieving personal mastery and inner strength. It suggests that true power lies in our ability to maintain calmness and focus our thoughts positively, rather than letting external circumstances dictate our reactions and emotions.
In practice
During a motivational speech on personal development, to emphasize the role of self-control in success.
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.
Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.
Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.
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