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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

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.

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

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

William James
Life And Love, Exercise, Effort
William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

William James
Effort, World, Contribution

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

William James
Mean, Thinking, Effort
1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.6.

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

William James
Effort, Spirit, Impossible
Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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