William James Quotes


102 quotes:

"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."
Author: James Quotes Category: Anger Quotes Attitude Quotes
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
Author: James Quotes Category: Ability Quotes
"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."
Author: James Quotes Category: Potential Quotes
"If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick."
Author: James Quotes Category: Potential Quotes
"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."
Author: James Quotes Category: Motivational Quotes Action Quotes
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
Author: James Quotes Category: Motivational Quotes Action Quotes
"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible."
Author: James Quotes Category: Faith Quotes
"Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text"
Author: James Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."
Author: James Quotes Category: Worth Quotes
"The sovereign cure for worry is prayer."
Author: James Quotes Category: Worry Quotes
"Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!"
Author: James Quotes Category: Universe Quotes
"Truth is what works."
Author: James Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be."
Author: James Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."
Author: James Quotes Category: Thoughts And Thinking Quotes
"Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us."
Author: James Quotes Category: Struggle Quotes
"Man lives for science as well as bread."
Author: James Quotes Category: Scientists Quotes
"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all."
Author: James Quotes Category: Risk Quotes
"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
Author: James Quotes Category: Purpose Quotes
"I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human 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, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride."
Author: James Quotes Category: Pride Quotes
"What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it ''recognition''!"
Author: James Quotes Category: Praise Quotes

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