"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."
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William James
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Quotes by William James
"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results."
"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
"Belief creates the actual fact."
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude."
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
"Belief creates the actual fact."
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."
"Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true,"it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?"
"Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner."
"we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood"
"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all."
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
"Belief creates the actual fact."