With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
WILLIAM JAMESHuman beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
More William James Quotes
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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New habits can be launched.
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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 power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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