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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

William James

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War
The 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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Men Philosophy
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
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Ideas Truth
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
WILLIAM JAMES

Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Motivational Positive
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
WILLIAM JAMES

Dog Littles Writing
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cases Matter Philosophical
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bystanders Eye Teaching
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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Block Data Mind
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
WILLIAM JAMES

Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
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

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

Accepting Daring Ideas
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
WILLIAM JAMES

Failure Lows Person

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

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