William James Quotes

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

Whether you are happy or miserable is completely a choice.

One of the lessons of 2016 is to spend less time worrying about what will happen and more time worrying about what we want to happen.

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

Positive mental attitude is determined by you. Not others.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Things don't weigh me down any more. I confront things, and I move on. I don't dwell on things; I don't let things simmer under the surface. I am where it starts and where it ends. I have the power in my life to be happy.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.