William James Quotes

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

Life, Help, Living

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

Motivational, Makes, Act

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
William James

Attitude, Someone, Between

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James

Humor, Moving, Different

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

Success, Men, Positive

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James

Wisdom, Art, Wise

Belief creates the actual fact.
William James

Inspirational, Fact, Belief

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

Acceptance, Step, Happened

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

Life, Greatest, Human

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William James

Motivational, Begin, Hereafter

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

Great, Thinking, Prejudices

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

History, Change, Fear

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

Leadership, Act, Quality

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
William James

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James

Future, Change, Bad

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James

Sports, Find, Enough

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James

Greatest, Stress, Thought

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
William James

Life, Change, Start

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James

Life, Living, Worth

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

Mind, Human, Lives

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

Life, Great, Spend

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

Nature, Human, Principle

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William James

Wisdom, Learning, Overlook

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James

Feeling, Together, Control

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
William James

Power, Optimism, Weakness

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 11, 1842

Died: August 26, 1910

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