William James
William James
William Jameswas an American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, James was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century and is believed by many to be one of the most influential philosophers the United States has ever produced, while others have labelled him the "Father of American psychology". Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey, he is considered to be...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth11 January 1842
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Effort is a measure of a Man.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
It is your friends who make your world.
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
In business for yourself, not by yourself.