Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
More William James Quotes
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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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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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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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 greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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