Quotes by James, William

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is hab >>

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality >>

If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremel >>

Quotations about Failure

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even >>

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. >>

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew >>

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William