“Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”
— William James
Work
“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”
— William James
Best
“Truth is what works.”
— William James
Truth
“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
— William James
Attitude
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James
Motivational
“Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”
— William James
Knowledge
“Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.”
— William James
Great
“Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
— William James
Happiness
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
— William James
Attitude
“In business for yourself, not by yourself.”
— William James
Business
“Time itself comes in drops.”
— William James
Time
“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.”
— William James
Faith
“The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.”
— William James
Best
“The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.”
— William James
Men
“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”
— William James
Motivational
“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.”
— William James
Attitude
“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
Good
“Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.”
— William James
Truth
“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”
— William James
Education
“Belief creates the actual fact.”
— William James
Inspirational