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William James Quotes

By Simran Khurana, About.com Guide

Action: William James Quotes
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Focus: William James Quotes
Act the part and you will become the part.

Attitude: William James Quotes
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Attitude: William James Quotes
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Desire: William James Quotes
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Attitude: William James Quotes
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Dreams: William James Quotes
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Attitude: William James Quotes
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Focus: William James Quotes
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Ambition: William James Quotes
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Attitude: William James Quotes
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Expression: William James Quotes
The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

Belief: William James Quotes
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self.

Decision Making: William James Quotes
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Change: William James Quotes
To change your life: start immediately; do it flamboyantly; no exceptions.

Decision Making: William James Quotes
When you have to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

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