Quote

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

Ralph Marston

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ralph Marston
Age: 60 †
Born: 1907
Born: February 16
Died: 1967
Died: December 7
American Football Player
Football Player
Malden
Massachusetts
Ordinary
Ability
Comes
Abilities
Doe
Applied
Persistence
Require
Achievement
Extraordinary

More quotes by Ralph Marston

Image
Let each moment be guided by positive purpose. And let your whole life express the beauty of who you truly are.
Ralph Marston
Image
There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.
Ralph Marston
Image
Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.
Ralph Marston
Image
If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.
Ralph Marston
Image
When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.
Ralph Marston
Image
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.
Ralph Marston
Image
Your life is constantly nourished by your thoughts. Whatever the direction your life is moving, your thoughts have led you there.
Ralph Marston
Image
Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes.
Ralph Marston
Image
Give your best to the challenges. And what you get will be even better.
Ralph Marston
Image
The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life.
Ralph Marston
Image
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.
Ralph Marston
Image
Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.
Ralph Marston
Image
You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.
Ralph Marston
Image
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.
Ralph Marston
Image
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.
Ralph Marston
Image
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.
Ralph Marston
Image
Doubt is merely a thought. When experience proves it wrong, it will quickly go away.
Ralph Marston
Image
Gratitude is the smile of love.
Ralph Marston
Image
What you hold in your heart, you will see in your world.
Ralph Marston
Image
One of the greatest motivators is desire. If the desire is strong enough you will do whatever it takes to achieve. Just connect your actions with your true desires.
Ralph Marston