Quotes by William James

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

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

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

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

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