Ralph Marston Quotes

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

Let the fear go, and live your life with the power of love.

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

Being truly thankful makes you infinitely more resourceful. By sincerely appreciating what you have, you find new and valuable ways to make use of it.

Make the decision to love this day, this place, this moment, this special experience of life with the people around you. And there will be so very much to love.

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.

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

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.

Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it. The time you spend living in fear is time you cannot spend living in love. The time you spend hiding and retreating from life is time you cannot spend growing and advancing and achieving.

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.

There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can't. Yet, in your belief you'll find the strength, you'll find the ability, to do it anyway.

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

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.

Truth is just as essential to nourishing the mind as food is to nourishing the body. The more fully you live each moment in truth, the more powerful and effective those moments will be.

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

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.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

Every moment you spend thinking about the bad stuff pushes that much more of the good stuff away.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

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.

Every positive thing in your life represents a single unique blessing. Every negative thing in your life has the opportunity to become a double blessing. For when you turn a negative into a positive, you gain twice. You are no longer burdened with the negative situation, and in addition to that you are strengthened by a new positive force.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

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.

What you are longing for is longing for you.

Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.

Look, really look, at how beautiful this day is. Let go of the worries and anxieties and judgments, and see the beauty.

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

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

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.

Choose to fully and graciously live life as it comes. The richest rewards by far are the ones to which you most sincerely give of yourself.

When you are happy, be thankful and your happiness is greatly multiplied. When you are feeling down, be thankful and youll soon be feeling much better.

Success is not a secret that is hidden from you.Success is a habit that is readily avaiable to you.

Your busy schedule has plenty of quantity. Think of how you could give it some true quality and meaning. Consider the people, the beliefs, the goals, the things which are really imp9ortant to you. Make time for them, not someday, but right now. Don't just fill your schedule. Fill your life.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your world. Make the commitment to fill this day with meaningful richness and purposeful effort. This is your day to live, so do so with vigor and enthusiasm.

When you think you know it all, there's not much that you'll learn.

Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.

One of the greatest motivators is desire. If the desire is strong enough you will do whatever it takes to achieve. Just connect your actions with your true desires.