William James Positive Quotations

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

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

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

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.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

Action and feeling go together, and by regulating the action... we can directly regulate the feeling.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time