Ralph Marston Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

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?

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

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

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