William James Quotes about Success

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

William James

Life, Success, Everyday

William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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

Positive, Success, Attitude

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

William James

Success, Uplifting, Taken

William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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

William James

Inspirational, Positive, Success

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

William James

Life, Success, Character

William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.16, Courier Corporation

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

William James

Life, Success, Strong

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

William James

Success, Self Esteem, Congratulations

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

William James

Success, Peace, Honesty

"Pete Seeger’s Last War" by David Hajdu, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

William James

Life, Success, Attitude

Letter to Alice Gibbons James, 1878

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

William James

Success, Confidence, Believe

If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

William James

Life, Success, Real

William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.61, Courier Corporation