5 Key Takeaways James Allen's book "As a Man Thinketh" The International Time Best Seller

In his famous book , " As a Man Think" James Allen discuses the qualities that distinguish great men from the ordinary men. He urges that the ones who grow great are just ordinary men having extraordinary determinations. Here are 7 key takeaways from the renowned best seller:

1)A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long cherished association with Godlike thoughts.

2) Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.

3) Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; They therefore remain bound.

4) They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying's, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.

5) He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.