William James Age Quotes

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

- William James

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.

- William James

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

- 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

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

- William James

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice

- William James

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

- William James

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

- William James

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self

- William James

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

- William James

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

- William James

In youth we learn in age we understand.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

- Alexander Hamilton

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

- Soren Kierkegaard

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

- Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

- Bertrand Russell

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Youth has no age.

- Pablo Picasso

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

- Phyllis Diller

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

- Paulo Coelho

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

- Joan Collins