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Will Quotes by William James
- Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the 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…
- Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
- If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with…
- It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
- It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never…
- One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental…
- Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in…
- The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
- Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of…
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