Ralph Marston

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

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

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

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

“Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.”

“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.”

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

“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?”

“You can choose instead to live in the enriching, empowering light of your own highest visions. You can always choose to grow, to achieve, and to fulfill by immersing your awareness in life's ever-present goodness.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“What you are longing for is longing for you.”

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

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

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

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

“Care, because it is what you do. Care, and be vibrantly alive.”

“The strongest leaders do not command, they empower”

“Prepare far enough in advance, and just about anything is possible.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Be wary of those who seek to steal your dream. Be even more wary of those who seek to tell you what your dream should be.”

“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”

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

“Just as surely as you can create a thought in your mind, you can create this day in the way you choose.”

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

“There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.”

“Every aspect of your life is greatly influenced, day in and day out, by the way you imagine life to be. Imagine the best, choose the goodness, and "be a source of love and light for all to see.”

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

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

“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.”

“Give your best to the challenges. And what you get will be even better.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Be someone who lifts others higher, and your life will be rich. Be someone filled with gratitude, and there will be no end to the things for which you'll be thankful.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won't always be easy, you'll live well.”

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

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

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

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

“Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.”

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