It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. WILLIAM JAMES ChangeLifePositive
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind. WILLIAM JAMES DiscoveryMenMind
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves. WILLIAM JAMES PeopleTalkingUnhappiness
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. WILLIAM JAMES InspirationalLifeMotivational
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. WILLIAM JAMES EncouragingLifePositive
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. WILLIAM JAMES FearHappinessStress
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. WILLIAM JAMES BestEffortForgetHard Work
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. WILLIAM JAMES FactsInsanityVision
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s. WILLIAM JAMES BarriersImmutableMen
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates. WILLIAM JAMES MenPhilosophySocial
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self. WILLIAM JAMES EsteemFailureInspirationalSelf
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift. WILLIAM JAMES EnoughPoorReason
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome. WILLIAM JAMES DecisionOrderResponsibility
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind. WILLIAM JAMES MindPhilosophyQuiet
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought. WILLIAM JAMES DetermineFeelingsMay
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’. WILLIAM JAMES EducationalInspirationalPhilosophy
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say. WILLIAM JAMES FinalsLastsMen
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions. WILLIAM JAMES FunctionIntellectThinking
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess. WILLIAM JAMES MenPartsSmallUse
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. WILLIAM JAMES PayQualitySupreme
