William James

William James

"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
William James
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
William James
"Truth is what works."
William James
"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them."
William James
"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."
William James
"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."
William James
"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."
William James
"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."
William James
"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
William James
"Time itself comes in drops."
William James
"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."
William James
"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
William James
"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."
William James
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
William James
"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."
William James
"There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse."
William James
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
William James
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."
William James
"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results."
William James
"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
William James
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