William James Quotes
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.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Belief creates the actual fact.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
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.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
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.
Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.