Ralph Marston quotes:

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be. If you could make the world exactly to your liking, consider very specifically just how that world would be. If you could spend your time doing precisely what you wish, how would the moments of your life be lived?

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

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

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

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 more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

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.

Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.

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

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

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.

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.

Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

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.

Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around 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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

Dare to dream big dreams. For those are the dreams that have the power to push your whole world forward.

There's nothing that says you have to succeed in the same way as someone else. In fact, there's nothing that says you must define success in the same way as someone else.

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

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.

Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That little bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference.

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.

Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.

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

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

Breathe in the sweet air of limitless possibility, and make life as rich as you know it can be.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way are the product of your own imagination? What have you convinced yourself that you can't do? What limitations have you come to believe in? Your mind is very powerful and effective. Is it working for you, or against you?

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

Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion.

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.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

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.

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

Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines. Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

A smile can work wonders. Put it to work for you.

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.

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

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

Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.

Allow love to fill the places where anxiety now resides.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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..

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Gratitude is the smile of love.

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

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

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

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

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

If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.

Imagine the possibilities!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.