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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

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
WILLIAM JAMES

Accepting Daring Ideas
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMES

Boiling Experience Over Way
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
WILLIAM JAMES

Book Cat Conservations Dog
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Laughter Men
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Moving Subconscious World
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
WILLIAM JAMES

Failure Lows Person
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
WILLIAM JAMES

Belief Believe Experience Lying
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMES

Circles People Sith
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attention Belief Facts
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMES

Good Hell Intention Intentions
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Science Together
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
WILLIAM JAMES

Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering

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