Quotes from William James
The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.
- William James
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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
- William James
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular a.. that does so whom we can't tolerate
- William James
Resign your destiny to higher powers.
- William James
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
- William James
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
- William James
An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.
- William James
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
- William James
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
- William James
Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse
- William James
Faith is one of the forces by which men live the total absence of it means collapse.
- William James