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William James Quotes about Inspirational

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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

Letter to his class at Radcliffe College, 6 Apr. 1896, in Letters (1920) vol. 2, p. 33

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

Inspirational, Self Esteem, Failure

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

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophical

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

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

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Inspirational, Life, Hate

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Inspirational, Attitude, Business

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Inspirational, Motivational, Saving

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Inspirational, Positive, Success

Belief creates the actual fact.

Inspirational, Uplifting, Philosophical

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

Inspirational, Life, Moving

Letter toWincenty Lutoslawski, 6 May 1906

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

Inspirational, Change, Dream

In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.

Inspirational, Successful, Important

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Inspirational, Philosophical, Ideas

Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lectures 4 and 5, p. 113

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社

Individuality is founded in feeling

Inspirational, Feelings, Individuality

William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.124, University of Illinois Press

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

Inspirational, Happiness

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

Inspirational, Education, Morning

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

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

Inspirational, Educational, Philosophy

"Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Inspirational, Business, Philosophical

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