Ralph Marston Quotes, Thoughts and Image

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

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

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

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

Every moment spent in negativity is paid for with something truly priceless. That something is life.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

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.

Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.

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

Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you're willing to learn, or they punish you if you're not.

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

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

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

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

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

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

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

Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

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

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

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

Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.

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

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

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

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