Inspirational Quotations by 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.
    From Issue 27
  • Genius means little more than
    the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
    From Issue 30
  • The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings
    can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
    From Issue 38
  • The art of being wise is
    the art of knowing what to overlook.
    From Issue 60
  • Act as though what you do makes a difference. It does.
    From Issue 162
  • Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society,
    its most precious conservative agent.
    It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,
    and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
    From Issue 188
  • Only necessity understood, and bondage to
    the highest is identical with true freedom.
    From Issue 193
  • The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
    From Issue 215
  • To change one's life:
    Start immediately.
    Do it flamboyantly.
    No exceptions.
    From Issue 235
  • To change one's life:
    Start immediately.
    Do it flamboyantly.
    No exceptions.
    From Issue 253
  • Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living
    and your belief will help create the fact.
    From Issue 278
  • He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
    From Issue 383
  • 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.
    From Issue 385
  • The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
    From Issue 388
  • There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
    From Issue 395

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