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There are 86 quotes for the author William James

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The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Subject: Life

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Subject: Appearance & Attitudes

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our mental and physical resources.

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

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

Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

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

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

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

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

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

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