Ralph Marston Quotes

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

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

It is not enough to want to make the effort and to say we'll make the effort. We must actually make the effort. It's in the doing, not just the thinking, that we accomplish our goals. If we constantly put our goals off, we will never see them fulfilled. Someone put it this way: Live only for tomorrow, and you will have a lot of empty yesterdays today.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

Decisiveness is the best way to get things done.

We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

I'm chasing my goals, and I haven't been able to make things happen the way I want them to happen. It doesn't feel good, but the answer is simple: I just have to work hard and to focus on cutting down the number of mistakes I make.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between 'I should' and 'I did.'

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.

Meeting external deadlines is much harder than meeting internal ones. On the other hand, internal deadlines sometimes don't feel real, and are therefore easy to evade.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

The way to get ahead is to start now.

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.