William James Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about: Inspirational

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

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  William James

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  Letter to his class at Radcliffe College, 6 Apr. 1896, in Letters (1920) vol. 2, p. 33

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

  William James

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

• In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.

  William James

  Inspirational, Successful, Important
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  The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

  William James

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Sadness

  Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 1, ch. 4

• Belief creates the actual fact.

  William James

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Philosophical

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

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophical

• He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

  William James

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社

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

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Saving

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

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Hate

• 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

  Inspirational, Attitude, Business

• Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Moving

  Letter toWincenty Lutoslawski, 6 May 1906

• A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

  William James

  Inspirational, Change, Dream

• An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

  William James

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Ideas

  Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lectures 4 and 5, p. 113

• Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.256, Harvard University Press

• Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

  William James

  Inspirational, Feelings, Path

  "The Principles of Psychology".

• Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

  William James

  Inspirational, Education, Morning

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.127, Courier Corporation

• 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

• In business for yourself, not by yourself.

  William James

  Inspirational, Business, Philosophical

• Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

  William James

  Inspirational, Educational, Philosophy

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

• We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

  William James

  Inspirational, Happiness

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