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.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.
Immigrants have been coming to our shores for generations to live the dream that is America. They wanted better for their children than for themselves. That remains the dream of all of us, and in this country, we have seen time and again that that dream is achievable.
We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
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