William James

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true self.

William James

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

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.

William James

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

William James

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

William James

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

William James

A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups.

William James

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

William James

A man’s self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.

William James

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock.

William James