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WILLIAM JAMESIf you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
More William James Quotes
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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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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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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