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William James Quotes - Page 3

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Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

Letting Go, Real, Trying

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

Men, Years, Growth

The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.

Happiness, Today, Tomorrow

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.

Positive, Success, Attitude

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophical

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Differences, Insightful, Making A Difference

You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Memories, Eye, Passion

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.108, Nuvision Pubns

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

Best Effort, Forget, Effort And Hard Work

William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.51, Harvard University Press

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

Wisdom, Philosophical, Learning

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Running, Dream, Inspirational Sports

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

Silence, Important

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

Affection, Alpha And Omega, Alphas

William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.551, Courier Corporation

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Leadership, Self Esteem, Quality

"Do You Have Executive Presence?" by Paul Hellman, www.cnbc.com. April 1, 2010.

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

Inspiration, Exercise, Two

To change one's life: a. Start immediately b. B. Do it flamboyantly c. No exceptions Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.

Dream, Suffering, Habit

It is your friends who make your world.

Meaningful, Short Best Friend, My Best Friend

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

Science, Mind, Progress

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.298, Courier Corporation

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

Men, Rocks, Self

William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.114, Harvard University Press

You can't out-perform your self-image.

Self

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Inspirational, Philosophical, Sadness

Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 1, ch. 4

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Motivational, Clever, Procrastination

William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, p.249, Cosimo, Inc.

Act the part and you will become the part.

Focus, Action

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

Inspirational, Life

William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.256, Harvard University Press

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Giving, Realizing, Habit

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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