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Act Quotes by William James
- Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain…
- Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
- Act the part and you will become the part.
- The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
- We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
- The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this…
- My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
- Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue…
- So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit…
- Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things…
- I will act as if I do make a difference.
- We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such…
- No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken…
- Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
- 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…
- If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
- An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
- Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of…
- If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.
- The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already…
More Act Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers… — Bruce Babbitt