James, William

"The ultimate test of what a truth means is indeed the conduct it inspires."

"Individuality is the aim of political liberty."

"To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified."

"Some men seem to have fallen in love with pain."

"All the beauty of life lies in the fact that we exist here."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

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

"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about your thoughts."

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

"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

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

"Human greatness lies in the struggle, not the victory."

"The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention is the very root of judgment, character and will."

"Does consciousness exist? I who ask this question am myself a fact of consciousness."

"The deepest fear in the world is the opinion of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep."

"You must force yourself to act, make the attitude come afterwards."

"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it."

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, is found in football."

"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it."

"The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds."

"We never fully credit the power of a belief to alter our physical being until the time comes when we are forced to."

"Hang on to the thought that life is worth living; that is the creed of a sound philosophy."

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds."

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

"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."

"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."