William James Quotes

• To change one’s life:
  1. Start immediately.
  2. Do it flamboyantly.
  3. No exceptions.

  William James

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Now, Change/Growth, Enthusiasm

• The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

  William James

  Topics in Fear, Uncategorized

  Tags in Dissolve, See

• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

  William James

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Hour, Inspiration

• Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

  William James

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Obstinate, Unusually, Science

• Belief creates the actual fact.

  William James

  Topics in Belief, Inspirational

  Tags in Faith

• If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

  William James

  Topics in Experience, Religion

  Tags in Supremely, Faith

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

  William James

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Prejudice, Thinking, Opinions

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

  William James

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Today, Falsehood
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  Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.

  William James

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Afraid, Creed, Credo
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  Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

  William James

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Second, Wind

• Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

  William James

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Action, Happiness

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

  William James

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Act
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  The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

  William James

  Topics in Ability

  Tags in Against, Choose
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  Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

  William James

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Holiday, Every

• Time itself comes in drops.

  William James

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Come

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

  William James

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liver, Depends
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  Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  William James

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Makes, Act, Different

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

  William James

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Act, Difference

• The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

  William James

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Away, Dies

• The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

  William James

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Richer, Devil

William James (125)

Birth:	11th January, 1842
Death:	26th August, 1910
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Philosopher, Psychologist

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