William James Quotes
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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.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
[Knowledge]
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
[Instincts]
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
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Man lives for science as well as bread.
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Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
[Thinking]
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Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
[Adversity]
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
[Friendship]
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!
[Sports]
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My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
[Success]
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
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Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.
[Positive]
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