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• We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

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  Best Effort, Forget, Effort And Hard Work

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

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  Silence, Important

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• The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

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  Attitude, Elderly, Discovery

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• The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

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  Men, Years, Growth

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• Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

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  Imagination, May

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• A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

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  Motivational, Meaningful, Perseverance

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• Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.

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  Worry, Decision, Stop Worrying

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

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  Life, Positive, Encouraging

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

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• To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

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  Suicide, Murder

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• Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

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  Men, Thinking, Small Rooms

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• 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.

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  Change, Believe, Reality

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• Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

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  Teamwork, Men, Two

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• Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

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  Life, Success, Everyday

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

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  Uplifting, Optimistic, Positive Thinking

  "The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature".

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• Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

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  Life, Happiness, Movement

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.105, Harvard University Press

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• Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

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  Letting Go, Giving Up, Responsibility

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.95, Harvard University Press

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• Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Wisdom

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Failure

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• The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.

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  Happiness, Today, Tomorrow

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• Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

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  Funny, Broken, Habit

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• I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

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  Happiness, Music, Philosophical

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• The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind

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  Moving, Mind, World

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

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  Basketball, Dream, Perseverance

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• Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

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  Differences, Insightful, Making A Difference

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