41+ Quotes by William James

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

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

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

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

"To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly."

"To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly."

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

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

"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible."

"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."

"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."

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

"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."

"Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

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

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

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

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

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

"Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."

"Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."

"Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."

"Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."

"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."

"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."

"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."

"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."

"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!"

"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 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."