William James

To change one’s life, start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.

Topic: Change
Location: Yellowstone National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

More Quotes from William James

Seize the very first opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. — William James

Act the part and you will become the part. — William James

Action Belief

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. — William James

Travel Vacation

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

› William James

Cooperation Strength

Genius Habits

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view. — William James

Accountability Freedom Liberty Responsibility

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. — William James

Common Sense Humor

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. — William James

Optimism Pessimism

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. — William James

Belief Dreams

More Quotes from Yellowstone National Park

The intuitive mind will tell the thinking mind where to look next. — Jonas Salk

Intuition Perception Thinking

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas Edison

Action Business Innovation Inspiration Perseverance Work

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. — Henry Ford

Adversity Mistakes

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. — Benjamin Franklin

Accountability Adversity Attitude Self Thinking

I won’t quarrel with my bread and butter. — Jonathan Swift

Conflict Persuasion

Trying to silence a person speaks. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Speech Truth

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. — Chinese Proverb

Integrity Liberty Values

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. — Aldous Huxley

Perception Travel

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. — William James

Faith Risk Truth

More on Change

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

› John Locke

Change

Action Change Choice Destiny Responsibility

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. — Winston Churchill

Change Perfection Quality

The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.

› Ronald Reagan

Change

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy. — Jonathan Swift

Change Consistent

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

› Susan B. Anthony

Change Freedom Liberty