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William James Quotes - Page 2

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Life, Positive, Encouraging

William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Change, Believe, Reality

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Inspirational, Self Esteem, Failure

To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

Suicide, Murder

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Happiness, Music, Philosophical

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

Men, Thinking, Small Rooms

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.

Worry, Decision, Stop Worrying

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

Uplifting, Optimistic, Positive Thinking

"The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature".

The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind

Moving, Mind, World

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

Life, Happiness, Movement

William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.105, Harvard University Press

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

Imagination, May

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Prayer, Philosophical, Worry

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Basketball, Dream, Perseverance

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

Funny, Broken, Habit

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

Spiritual, Military, Destiny

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

Beauty, Beautiful, Wisdom

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

Stress, Weapons, Combat

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

Effort, Digging, Littles

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.62, Nuvision Pubns

Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

Letting Go, Giving Up, Responsibility

William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.95, Harvard University Press

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

Attitude, Capacity, Accomplished

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

Education, Enemy, Allies

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Mind, States

What holds attention determines action.

Attention, Action, Determine

William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.7, Courier Corporation

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

Feelings, Together, Path

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