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• 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 advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

  William James

  Success, Uplifting, Taken

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

  William James

  Leadership, Motivation, Philosophical

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• The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

  William James

  Character, Roots, Excellence

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

  William James

  Circles, People, Sith

  Letter toWincenty Lutoslawski, 6 May 1906

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• It is your friends who make your world.

  William James

  Meaningful, Short Best Friend, My Best Friend

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• 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.

  William James

  Inspirational, Attitude, Business

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• Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience

  William James

  Truth Is

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• A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

  William James

  Family, Power, Men

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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• The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

  William James

  Desire, Gains, Wealth

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

  William James

  Education, Teacher, Learning

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

  William James

  Life, Work, Hands

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

  William James

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社

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• A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

  William James

  Men, May, Firsts

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• Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

  William James

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Half

  "Unsettling changes" by Mike Small, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.

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• Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

  William James

  Life, Religious, Courage

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.252, Routledge

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• The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

  William James

  Philosophical, Essence, Genius

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• As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

  William James

  Use, Facts, Belief

  "The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy". Book by William James, 1897.

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• The education of attention would be an education par excellence

  William James

  Excellence, Would Be, Attention

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• My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

  William James

  Believe, Firsts, Free Will

  Diary, 30 Apr. 1870

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• In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.

  William James

  Inspirational, Successful, Important

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• When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

  William James

  Inspiration, Action, Emotion

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• Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

  William James

  Believe, Men, Needs

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• We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

  William James

  Men, Differences, Choices

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  William James

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

  William James

  Differences, Design, Special

  The Varieties of Religious Experience Lecture 3 (1902)

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