Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
WILLIAM JAMESThe God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
More William James Quotes
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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.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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