Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMESSo to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
More William James Quotes
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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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.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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