- “Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”
- “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
- “A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.”
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
- “Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
- “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
- “Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.”
- “Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”
- “Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.”
- “Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”
- “I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.”
- “I will act as if what I do makes a difference.”
- “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.”
- “If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”
- “If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.”
- “Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.”
- “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. “
- “It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
- “Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.”
- “Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
- “Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”
- “The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
- “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
- “The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.”
- “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
- “The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
- “There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.”
- “This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”
- “Time itself comes in drops.”
- “To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.”
- “Truth is what works.”
- “A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
~ William James