William James Quotes About Fear

Quotes about: Fear

• 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

  Fear, Past, History
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  The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

  William James

  Happiness, Fear, Stress

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

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

• Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.

  William James

  Courage, Attitude, Fear

• The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

  William James

  Fear, Brave, Cheerful

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

• The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

  William James

  Fear, Civilization, Class

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.334, Library of America

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