william james

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter....

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it....

In business for yourself, not by yourself....

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does....

I will act as if what I do makes a difference....

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference....

Time itself comes in drops....

Truth is what works....

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who...

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake....

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hat...

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly att...

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be do...

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe...

Man lives for science as well as bread....

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find...

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook...

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook....

To spend life for something which outlasts it....

Wisdom is learning what to overlook....

Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.&#...

Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.&#...

Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.&#...

Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.&#...

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen o...

Belief creates the actual fact....

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking....

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rea...

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a goo...

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will...

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that ...

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer....

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom noth...

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we m...

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the n...

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to fi...

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlo...

Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.&#...

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he...

A great many people think they are thinking when they are me...

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with ...

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is th...

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving i...

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it beco...

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver....

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of t...

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort ...

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an unco...

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power....

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existen...