Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMESFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
More William James Quotes
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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
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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