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"71 William James Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 11 January 1842 Died: 26 August 1910 | Philosopher |

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Action Bring Always But
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Enough Far Find First
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Ability Against Another Choose
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Alter Altering Attitudes Discovery
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
Choice Itself Make You
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Belief Believe Create Fact
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The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Greatest Life Outlast Something
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Act Difference Does Makes
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Any Enemy Greatest May
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Art Being Knowing Overlook
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Great Many Merely People
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
Alter Altering His Life
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Abnormal Best Best Way Normal
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Before Gained Ideas Lives
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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Begin Hereafter Now Will
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
Business Yourself
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Faculty Genius Little Means
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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.

Another Bad Believe Change
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Crises Emergencies Great Greater
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Appreciated Craving Deepest Human
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

Change Immediately Life Start
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Acceptance Any Consequences First
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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.

Alcohol Cold Criticisms Crushed
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Awake Compared Half Ought
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Away Community Impulse Sympathy
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Act Chosen Equally Ethical
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Both Both Sides Bring Closer
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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.

Another Beforehand Come Enough
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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Behalf Caution Certain Errors
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To spend life for something which outlasts it.
Life Outlast Something Spend
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

About Call Consciousness Different
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Action Control Direct Feeling
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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.

Affect Anything AnythingElse Attitude
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Belief creates the actual fact.
Actual Belief Creates Fact
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Bad Bad One Between Cause
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Again Age Character Like
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Act Advantage Better Character
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

Almost Devout Esteem Facts
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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.

Accommodate Business Cannot Convenience
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Cause Failure Faith His
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Belief Concerning Doubt Faith
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Always Anything Believe Everyone
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Case Else Faith Greatest
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Eternal Hanging Nothing Task
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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.

Actually Catch Character Darker
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Come Force Idea Individual
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

About Another Being Currents
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We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

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

Day Each EachDay Everybody
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
Depends Life Liver Living
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William James Quotes & Sayings