William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Change
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.Collection: Men
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.Collection: Motivational
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.Collection: Leadership
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.Collection: Positive
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.Collection: Great
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.Collection: Faith
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.Collection: Motivational
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.Collection: Attitude
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.Collection: Education
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.Collection: Faith
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.Collection: Attitude
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.Collection: Experience
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.Collection: Change
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.Collection: Nature
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.Collection: Attitude
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.Collection: Power
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.Collection: Sports
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.Collection: Truth
Belief creates the actual fact.Collection: Inspirational
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.Collection: Faith
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.Collection: Life
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.Collection: Life
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.Collection: Nature
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.Collection: Sympathy
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.Collection: Life
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.Collection: Life
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.Collection: Happiness
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.Collection: Great
Truth is what works.Collection: Truth
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.Collection: Leadership
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.Collection: Change
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
In business for yourself, not by yourself.