"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

James, William on attitude
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."

James, William on perseverance
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"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

James, William on life
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"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use."

James, William on possibilities   

"If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait."

James, William on action
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"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."

James, William on action   

"He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."

Lao-Tzu on leadership
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"To see things in the seed is genius."

Lao-Tzu on genius
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"Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor."

James, William on habit   

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

James, William on desire
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"Events are influenced by our very great desires."

James, William on desire
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"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."

James, William on ecology   

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"We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead."

James, William on effort
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"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."

James, William on failure
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"The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old."

James, William on growth
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"We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life."

James, William on habit
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"Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do."

James, William on honesty
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"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique."

James, William on imagination
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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

James, William on adversity
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