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Danh ngôn của William James (Sứ mệnh: 1)

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.
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.
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Belief creates the actual fact.
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.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
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.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
Truth is what works.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.