“Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.”

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move.

Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.

Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you’ll have much to live for.

Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Look up from what you’re doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you’re in.

Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Your life is always moving toward something.

Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness.

I think it ought to occupy a prominent place in our investigations, and that we ought to endeavour to construct a mental representation of all the details of its action, and this has been my constant aim in this treatise.

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.

The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.

William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour.

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan

You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.