William James

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."

"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."

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all."

"Belief creates the actual fact."

"Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner."

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

"the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease"

"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."

"Belief creates the actual fact."

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

"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."

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."

"Belief creates the actual fact."

"إن بيننا وبين الله رابطة لا تنفصم، فإذا نحن أخضعنا أنفسنا لإشرافه - سبحانه وتعالى - تحققت أمنياتنا وآمالنا كلها."

"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

"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?"