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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

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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

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Belief creates the actual fact. ↗

— William James

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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. ↗

— William James

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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. ↗

— William James

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. ↗

— William James

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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

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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. ↗

— William James

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The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. ↗

— William James

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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! ↗

— William James

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