01c. 1876 ADThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.William James / quote ↗
02c. 1876 ADMost people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.William James / quote ↗
03c. 1876 ADThe sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.William James / quote ↗
04c. 1876 ADAction may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.William James / quote ↗
05c. 1876 ADHow 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.William James / quote ↗
07c. 1876 ADWe 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.William James / quote ↗
08c. 1876 ADThe aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.William James / quote ↗
10c. 1876 ADIf you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.William James / quote ↗
11c. 1876 ADTruth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.William James / quote ↗
13c. 1876 ADThe greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.William James / quote ↗
14c. 1876 ADThe community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.William James / quote ↗
15c. 1876 ADBelieve that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.William James / quote ↗
16c. 1876 ADWhatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!William James / quote ↗
17c. 1876 ADFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.William James / quote ↗
18c. 1876 ADIt is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.William James / quote ↗
20c. 1876 ADA chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.William James / quote ↗
21c. 1876 ADThis life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.William James / quote ↗
22c. 1876 ADThe greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.William James / quote ↗
24c. 1876 ADIf you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.William James / quote ↗
