Ralph marston quotes

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

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.

Gratitude is the smile of love.

When you do the right thing, enjoy it! When you take positive actions, enjoy them. After all, they are leading you toward positive results. Pat yourself on the back. Truly enjoy the fact that you're making positive progress, and the negative temptations will have no power over you.

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

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.

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

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.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion.

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.

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.

A world of abundance surrounds you, if only you will step up and claim it. Make life happen through you rather than letting it happen to you. It will make all the difference in the world.

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

The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.

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

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.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, is your permanent reality.

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

In the midday sun, a bright light will be barely noticed. Yet in the darkest night, even the smallest light can make an enormous difference.

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

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

One positive step can put an end to negative momentum. Now is when you can take it.

What you are longing for is longing for you.

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.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

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

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

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.

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.

Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. [at least it will feel like it!]

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

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.

Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

The value of an ambitious goal is not measured by what it will bring to you. The worth of a goal is measured by what it will make of you in the process of following and attaining it.

Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such

Just because the road ahead is long, is no reason to slow down. Just because there is much work to be done, is no reason to get discouraged. It is a reason to get started, to grow, to find new ways, to reach within yourself and discover strength, commitment, and determination. The road ahead is long and difficult, but it’s filled with opportunity. Start what needs starting. Finish what needs finishing. Get on the road. Stay on the road. Don’t give up.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

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.

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.

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

There is a thought in your mind right now. The longer you hold on to it, the more you dwell upon it, the more life you give to that thought. Give it enough life, and it will become real. So make sure the thought is indeed a great one.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

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

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

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 you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.

Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

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

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

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

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

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

Humility reminds you that in order to receive value, you must create value in equal measure.

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

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

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

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

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.

Your life is constantly nourished by your thoughts. Whatever the direction your life is moving, your thoughts have led you there.

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

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

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

Be someone who genuinely seeks to understand, and you will be wise. Be someone kind, someone considerate, and you will be admired. Be someone who values truth, and you will be respected. Be someone who takes action, and you will move life forward.

The strongest leaders do not command, they empower

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

Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

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

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

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

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

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

You are full of wonderful possibilities. Do something with them. The most painful regrets, those which never go away, are regrets of things not done, things never attempted.

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

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

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

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.

Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.

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.

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

The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true

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

If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.