Quotes by James Truslow Adams


The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
– James Truslow Adams
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
– James Truslow Adams
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
– James Truslow Adams
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
– James Truslow Adams
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
– James Truslow Adams
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
– James Truslow Adams
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
– James Truslow Adams
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.
– James Truslow Adams