The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease. - William James
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. - William James
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. - William James
There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it. - William James
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all. - William James
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. - William James
Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind. - William James
However, I would like to point out that hard work alone will not bring success. The world is filled with people who have worked hard but have little to show for it. Something more than hard work is necessary: It is creative thinking and firm belief in your ability to execute your ideas. The successful people in history have succeeded through their thinking. Their hands were merely helpers to their brains. - Claude M. Bristol
Repetition of negative thoughts will discourage even the most powerful if continued long enough, and unless your mind is closed against them and you counteract them by constantly thinking and radiating positive thoughts, you will sooner or later find yourself sunk. - Claude M. Bristol
To become the person you would like to be, you create a mental picture of your newly conceived self, and if you continue to hold it, the day will come when you are in reality, that person. - Claude M. Bristol
What the fool cannot learn, he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. - Claude M. Bristol
Whether we know it or not, we are all engaged in the selling of something; if not our wares, then our personalities, our services, our ideas. - Claude M. Bristol
Be careful the environment you choose, for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. - W. Clement Stone
If you always do what you have always done, you will always be where you are right now. - W. Clement Stone
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. - W. Clement Stone
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