Quotes by James, William

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go toget >>

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait. >>

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude >>

Quotations about Character

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only o >>

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have. >>

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about >>

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William