“If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.”

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.

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

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.

He can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

People take chances every now and then, and you don’t want to disappoint them.

Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.

When you come out of the theatre and you don’t even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

I love women. I actually prefer girls, as a parent, because they disappoint at a different age. They go through that, “Dad’s an idiot,” which lasted a little longer than I’d like.