William James Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

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

  William James

  Running, Dream, Inspirational Sports

• The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

  William James

  Responsibility, Self, Worry

  "The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature". Book by William James, 1902.

• Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  William James

  Energy, Half, Limits

• Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  William James

  Life, Power, Perfect

• Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

  William James

  Basketball, Dream, Perseverance

• Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

  William James

  Life, Religious, Courage

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.252, Routledge

• It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.

  William James

  Exercise, Men, Giving

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

• The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist, and that those other worlds must contain experiences which have a meaning for our life also; and that although in the main their experiences and those of this world keep discrete, yet the two become continuous at certain points, and higher energies filter in.

  William James

  Other Worlds, Two, Filters

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.463, Library of America

• Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy.

  William James

  Spiritual, Military, Believe

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.173, Harvard University Press

• Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

  William James

  Pain, Mean, Energy

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

• Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.

  William James

  Spiritual, Energy, World

  "The Varieties of Religious Experience".

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