William James Quotes
A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.
Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by.
I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.
Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.
When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way.
The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing
Put character and mental toughness before execution and you will get consistent execution.
Much of what we call evil can 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
The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.
Be willing to have it so acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.
Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion action will.
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit it is worse than a chance lost it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse.
The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.
