It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESIn business for yourself, not by yourself.
More William James Quotes
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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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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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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New habits can be launched.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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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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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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