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• If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

  William James

  Motivational, Positive, Exercise

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• Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

  William James

  Inspiration, Exercise, Two

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• Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

  William James

  Giving, Realizing, Habit

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

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• Act the part and you will become the part.

  William James

  Focus, Action

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• 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.

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• Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Saving

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

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Hate

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• Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

  William James

  Motivational, Clever, Procrastination

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, p.249, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

  William James

  Circles, People, Sith

  Letter toWincenty Lutoslawski, 6 May 1906

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• 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

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• Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

  William James

  Attitude, Men

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• Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction

  William James

  Ease, May, Born To Run

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• The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

  William James

  Positive, Discovery, Important

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• There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

  William James

  Lying, Misunderstood, Statistics

  'The Varieties of Religious Experience' (1902) lectures 14 and 15, p. 355

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• Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

  William James

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

  William James

  Sick, Failing, Ifs

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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

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• If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

  William James

  Leadership, Motivation, Philosophical

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• 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

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• My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

  William James

  Believe, Firsts, Free Will

  Diary, 30 Apr. 1870

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• 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

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• We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

  William James

  Differences, Design, Special

  The Varieties of Religious Experience Lecture 3 (1902)

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• The strenuous life tastes better

  William James

  Taste

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• 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 aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

  William James

  Simplicity, Aim, Complexity

  1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.9.

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