The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William JamesWe have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William JamesA winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.
William JamesFatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.
William James