William James

"Belief creates the actual fact."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

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

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

"we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood"

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

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

"Belief creates the actual fact."

"Belief creates the actual fact."

"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."

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

"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?"

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

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