Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.
Ralph MarstonRead
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
Interpretation
Embrace challenging problems as they often lead to valuable opportunities for growth and success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of welcoming difficult and complex challenges instead of avoiding them. It suggests that within these 'big, sticky, complicated problems' lie significant opportunities for personal and professional development, urging us to shift our perspective and view challenges as chances to innovate and excel.
In practice
This quote can inspire a team during a challenging project meeting.
Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
A world of abundance surrounds you, if only you will step up and claim it. Make life happen through you rather than letting it happen to you. It will make all the difference in the world.
If you're to succeed at any endeavor, the first and most important person you must convince is yourself. Success comes not from merely a belief that you can do it. Success comes when you absolutely know you can achieve it
You have created your fears. And you can choose to lay them to rest. You have created your dreams. And you can choose to bring them fully to life.
Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.
When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down. Somebody else is.
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.
The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.
It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's right, or doubt that you can make it behave well at that moment. You've got to feel sure you're doing the right thing-sure that you want to throw the pitch you're going to throw.
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