Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
Ralph MarstonRead
Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.
Interpretation
Stay focused on your goals and the benefits of achieving them.
This quote highlights the importance of maintaining motivation and clarity about one's goals throughout the journey. By recalling the reasons for beginning a pursuit and envisioning the rewards at the end, one can sustain the drive needed to overcome challenges and keep progressing towards success.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a team that's facing challenges halfway through a project.
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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.
Do what you LOVE to do, and do it so well that those who come to see you do it will bring others to watch you do it again and again and again.
Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
God helps him who strives hard.
My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals.
My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.
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