William James

"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

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

- William James

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

- William James

"My experience is what I agree to attend to."

- William James

"Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear."

- William James

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

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

- William James

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help you create the fact."

- William James

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

- William James

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

- William James

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

- William James

"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

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it."

- William James

"We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we are happy because we laugh."

- William James

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

- William James

"I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing."

- William James

"Most of us never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second."

- William James

"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice."

- William James

"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."

- William James

"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude."

- William James

"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep."

- William James

"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

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

- William James

"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."

- William James

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

- William James

""It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.""

- William James

"Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."

- William James

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

- William James

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect It's successful outcome."

- William James

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome"

- William James

"Make yourself do what needs to be done when it needs to be done."

- William James

"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

- William James

"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

- William James

"The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes; they always dwell within their borders. … The nation blessed above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks."

- William James

"When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice."

- William James

"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice."

- William James

"Act the part and you will become the part."

- William James

"A cowboy is a man with guts and a horse."

- William James

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

- William James

"The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

- William James

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

- William James

"Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile."

- William James

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

- William James

"If you can change your mind you can change your life."

- William James

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

- William James

"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."

- William James

"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

"To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly 3. No exceptions."

- William James

"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."

- William James

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

- William James

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power"

- William James

""Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.""

- William James

"Every man who possibly can force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

- William James

"So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky."

- William James

""So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.""

- William James

"The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy."

- William James

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

- William James

"Common sense and sense of humor are two different things, but they move at different speeds. A sense of humor is simply common sense. It’s dancing."

- William James

""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

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

- William James

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

- William James

"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."

- William James

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

- William James

"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

"We don't laugh because we're happy – we're happy because we laugh."

- William James

""The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.""

- William James

"Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed."

- William James

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second."

- William James

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

- William James

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

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

- William James

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

- William James

"The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

- William James

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

- William James

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

- William James

"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

- William James

"The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow."

- William James

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

- William James

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."

- William James

"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

"“A cowboy is a man with guts and a horse.”"

- William James

"Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours."

- William James

"The cure for worry is prayer."

- William James

"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

- William James