Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMESFocus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
More William James Quotes
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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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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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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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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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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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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