black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
WILLIAM JAMES

Effort Exercise Life Love
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Science Together
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
WILLIAM JAMES

Allies Education Enemy
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
WILLIAM JAMES

Book Cat Conservations Dog
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
WILLIAM JAMES

Important Realizing Teacher
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
WILLIAM JAMES

Grace Order Unseen
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
WILLIAM JAMES

Differences Extensions Relation
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMES

Combat Stress Weapons
All religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cry Helping Religion
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMES

Good Hell Intention Intentions
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMES

Clever Motivational Procrastination
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMES

Congratulations Self Esteem Success
New habits can be launched.
WILLIAM JAMES

Habit New Launched
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Beast Kind Men
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
WILLIAM JAMES

Credit Facts Truth

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More William James Quotes