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William James Quotes

"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter""The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes""The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.""Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.""Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action""Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact""Truth is only one way of appealing to reality""Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world""The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual""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""Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind""The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.""The truth is that belief creates the actual fact.""Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.""When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.""A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.""The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.""The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.""The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.""The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."