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

Ralph Marston

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Ralph Marston
Age: 60 †
Born: 1907
Born: February 16
Died: 1967
Died: December 7
American Football Player
Football Player
Malden
Massachusetts
Negative
Leadership
Positive
Situation
Inspirational
Naive

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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?
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Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.
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What you hold in your heart, you will see in your world.
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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.
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If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.
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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.
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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.
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Doubt is merely a thought. When experience proves it wrong, it will quickly go away.
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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.
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Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.
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Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.
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Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every moment spent in negativity is paid for with something truly priceless. That something is life.
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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.
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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.
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Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. [at least it will feel like it!]
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When you think you know it all, there's not much that you'll learn.
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