Top 189 Quotes & Sayings by Ralph Marston - Page 2

Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion.

Today is plenty; right now is enough. Tomorrow will come in good time. Until it does, live the depth of now.

Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring.

The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.

Sure, it's easy to be upbeat when everything is going your way. Anyone can do that. It is far more important, however, to take a positive approach in circumstances that most people would view as negative.

If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.

Meaning is found not in the rewards, for they are only tokens. Seek not to have the gold medal. Instead, seek to be the person who can win the gold medal. It is in the quest that you'll find the fulfillment which the reward represents.

Even in the most difficult situation there is always, somehow, a way to triumph

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.

Learn at every opportunity. What your learn is always yours.

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

Stop needing and start having. Stop wanting and start being.

What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it.

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.

If the challenge seems a bit too overwhelming, that's the one you want. Take it on & let it pull you up.

If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power.

When you find yourself ready to complain about what you don't have, stop for a moment to consider what incredible things you do have. And resolve to make the most of it all.

What you are longing for is longing for you.

In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.

Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.

Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative.

What you hold in your heart, you will see in your world.

If you're to succeed at any endeavor, the first and most important person you must convince is yourself. Success comes not from merely a belief that you can do it. Success comes when you absolutely know you can achieve it

You have created your fears. And you can choose to lay them to rest. You have created your dreams. And you can choose to bring them fully to life.

Be appreciative of what's right with your life. In your gratitude is power to make it even better

You become what you think about most. When you continually focus on the fear of failure, failure will become real for you. Look instead at the possibilities. Look at what could happen if only you would attempt it. Sure, it might not succeed completely. Yet even then you will learn something.

Those who are passionate about what they do have an advantage that is nearly impossible to overcome. In passion there is energy, creativity, resilience and persistence. Passion will get it done.

To believe in what you're doing is not just important. It is everything!

Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.

Stopping before you reach the goal does not make the discouragement go away. All it does is make the discouragement permanent. Instead, keep going, keep making the attempt, until you make that last, fulfilling attempt that brings the success you desire.

Choose to live in a place where your eyes are always open to the positive possibilities.

When you can clearly see yourself being there, you can see much more clearly how to get there. You can imagine the path to your dreams, and then start to actually walk it. Play an active role in your own future. Imagine with passion and detail how you'd most like it to be.

Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

Let each moment be guided by positive purpose. And let your whole life express the beauty of who you truly are.

No matter what the situation may be, there is always something positive you can do about it.

You are here, and there is nothing to fear. Count your blessings and before you're finished counting, you"ll have even more

What has happened has happened and it is now behind you. Take the best of it all as you move positively forward.

Whats holding you back is the thought that something is holding you back.

Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.

Be thankful for it all. And beyond your many blessings, will be many, many more.

Winners win not because they're allowed to, but because they decide to.

So go ahead and face that fear, make that effort, move forward into new territory and fully live the grand possibilities with which you're blessed. Boldly face life, and you'll find it to be better than you ever imagined.

It's difficult to follow your dream. It's a tragedy not to.

Doubt is merely a thought. When experience proves it wrong, it will quickly go away.

When you're not afraid to fail, you'll most certainly have the confidence to succeed.

What you do makes you better at what you think. What you think makes you more effective at what you do.

Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.

The hours and days you spend being annoyed or frustrated are times when you deny yourself access to life's best possibilities. When you live in anger and resentment, you cut yourself off from life's goodness.

Live each moment from your own inspiration, not from your desire to look good in the eyes of others.

Step confidently forward in the precisely the direction that is the most challenging to you. Because in that same direction, you'll also find what is most rewarding to you.

The sooner you act, the bigger difference you can make.