Ralph Marston Quotes

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

I believe everything has a solution.

Do not Blame the world. Find a solution.

Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot.

Nothing is unfixable.

It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.

I always believed you could fix whatever problems.

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.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

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

My parents always used to tell us not to complain about things but do something about them, so 'Can't is not an option' was almost a way of life.

Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

My entire life, I have viewed every problem as an opportunity - I've had no choice.

Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.

I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution.' That's the way my brain is wired. If someone says to me, 'Well, that's not possible. It can't happen,' I say, 'Yes it is. I'm going to sit here and show you that it can.'

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

One of the big lessons I have learnt from my life is that things are never as difficult as they seem. When you actively plunge into it, you realize you can easily do it.

There is always something we can be concerned about. The secret is to rise above it and do whatever we can to make the world a better place.