William James Quotes About Inspirational
-
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
→ -
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
→ -
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
→ -
We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.
→ -
Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
→ -
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
→ -
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.
→ -
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
→ -
Belief creates the actual fact.
→ -
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
→ -
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
→ -
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.
→ -
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
→ -
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
→ -
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
→ -
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
→ -
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
→ -
In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
→ -
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.
→ -
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
→ -
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
→ -
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
→ -
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
→ -
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
→ -
Individuality is founded in feeling
→ -
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.
→