Ralph Marston Quotes

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

Step out of the space you're in. Use fear to grow. We can change lives, starting with our own.

Walking your path doesn't mean you don't hurt, it means the pain is worth the progress. Sometimes you have to break something down in order to remake it, and that includes yourself, or it did for me. There were moments when I wept for an easier road, but in the end I would not trade my path for anyone else's. It is mine and the traveling of it has made me who I am, and continues to shape and remold me into the best, happiest, most productive, most playful me, I've ever been.

Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

Everything in my life has been challenging but rewarding.

If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

I feel like through martial arts I'm able to face my fears head on. It makes me not run away from challenges in life. I'm able to transfer my martial arts training over to other challenges. To be able to conquer your fears is the best feeling in the world.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

You'll always have to fight for what you want. Definitely crossing over and being able to tackle these grittier parts was a challenge, but I feel like I've done it! It's a whole new chapter.

You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.

The process of life is ever unfolding, guiding you, pushing you, preparing you for the next part of the process. Difficult challenges, bad days, upset feelings, moments of confusion are part of life's process. Perhaps these things are there to keep us alert, to make us stronger, or to test our resolve to keep moving forward.

Hidden behind your fears and your failures is the success you seek.

Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Every day has its own challenges, and every day those challenges make us stronger.