William James quotes Born: 01/11/1842 Died: 08/26/1910 Country: usa

• Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. (William James) [genius/truth/more]
• Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. (William James) [day]
• 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. (William James) [result/system/change/system]
• Belief creates the actual fact. (William James)
• Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. (William James) [thing]
• It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome. (William James) [attitude/more/willpower]
• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. (William James) [life/thinking]
• We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. (William James) [truth]
• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. (William James) [life/willpower]
• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. (William James) [more/human/being]
• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar. (William James) [evil/stroke/virtue]
• The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. (William James) [stress/ability]
• Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. (William James) [faith]
• The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. (William James) [worry/prayer]
• In business for yourself, not by yourself. (William James) [business]
• Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none. (William James) [genius/men]
• Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. (William James)
• There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. (William James) [thing]
• We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. (William James) [difference/bad/choice]
• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction. (William James) [happiness/think/life/give]
• The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. (William James) [path/speak]
• To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified. (William James) [give]
• Events are influenced by our very great desires. (William James) [desires]
• If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. (William James) [care/result/willpower]
• Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. (William James) [path/speak]
• It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. (William James) [age/character/willpower]
• If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. (William James) [life/fight/willpower]
• 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)
• Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things. (William James) [youth/society/speech/matter]
• Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. (William James) [facts]
• The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. (William James) [god/science/god/god]

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