William James quotes.
All 19 quotations by William James in our collection.
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”
“Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.”
“Belief creates the actual fact.”
“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”
“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
“Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task.”
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”
“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Building something with this content? MeBot answers your visitors' questions on your own site.