If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMESWe forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
More William James Quotes
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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