William James Quotes About Failure

Quotes about: Failure

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

  William James

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Failure

• No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

  William James

  Failure, Lows, Persons

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.139, Harvard University Press

• Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

  William James

  Failure, Fire, Use

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1225, Library of America

• Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

  William James

  Failure, Men, Secret

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.129, Library of America

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