Ralph Marston Quotes

I try to look at things in a positive way. If someone says something negative to me, I'll just turn it around into a positive.

Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

A person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says, 'I 'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance.' Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of self-pity .

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don't wait until you feel better.

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively for the accomplishment of the Party's tasks.

You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

We’ve all seen the same situation happen to two people. One looks for the lesson, sets their shoulders back and presses on while the other asks ‘why does it always happen to me?’ You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

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

Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.