Stephen Richards Quotes

When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.

The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.

To dream by night is to escape your life. To dream by day is to make it happen.

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.

The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.

The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.

Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.

Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.

Happy people produce. Bored people consume.

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.

Judgment is a negative frequency.

You don't have to be good at something to be liked.

When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.

Stand out from the crowd, be yourself.

When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.

Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.

You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it.

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.

No matter how small you start, always dream big.

No matter whether you believe in luck or chance, the final decision is from yourself.

It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.

If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated?

Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap.

Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker.

Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.

Exhaust your worries and they will soon leave you.

It’s not about working for money, it’s about having money work for you.

Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ...

When you fail, that is when you get closer to success.

Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers.

The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering.

If you think you can then you can.

Be yourself, as no one else can.

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires.

Whatever it takes to find the real you, don't be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.

Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them.

I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.

We are exactly what our history made us to be.

For us to regard others as worthy, we have to begin by regarding ourselves as worthy.

A thought is a Cosmic Order waiting to happen.

Each new friend gives rise to the possibility of anything!

Positive belief in yourself will give you the energy needed to conquer the world and this belief is the power behind all creation.

When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.

The moment you become friends with your inner Self, you realize that the failures or hindrances that you met earlier were caused more by your disconnected status with your inner Being.

When you know love then that is the time you forget hate.

Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.

Inaction creates nothing. Action creates success.

When you're alone is when you can count your friends.

What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.

When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.

Start with big dreams and make life worth living.

When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing.

You are only as beautiful as your last action ...

Even though your thinking might not be right for others, just so long as it's right for you then that's all what matters.

If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it.

Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there.

Always have an air of expectancy.

True friendship never questions what it costs you.

Don't live to be judged for what you haven't done. Live to be judged for what you have done.

Live in this moment ... for it is the only moment we have!

Lunacy is when you can’t see the seams where they stitched the world together anymore.

If we ask, we should also be prepared to give.

When we lose our spiritual child then that is when we have grown old.

All that you are is all around you.

Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.

When you express gratitude for the blessings that come into your life, it not only encourages the universe to send you more, it also sees to it that those blessings remain.

Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief?

Stop comparing yourself with others. If they are good at something, you too are good at something else. Self-confidence is not measured by your own capabilities versus that of others, but by your own needs.

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.

We were all born equal, but where we are in life now is of our own making.

To get something different, you must do something different.

Be yourself and become wealthy!

Self-confidence is contagious.

When you stop blaming others for where you are in life, that is when you can start to manifest your dream life!

The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us.

The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.

The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.

The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.

Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.

A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.

The only thing limiting your aspiration is your imagination.

Without friends you have nothing!

Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.

The mind is the strongest tool we have to help us secure the riches within the universe.

If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.

Each person has got a voice inside them. Communicate with it and take hold of it. Do not let it push and shove you around – you are its master!

The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up.

Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.

A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one.

Though money cannot acquire you happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together.

Don’t dare to dream big, just dream BIG!

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done. When you get to that time that is now, make a full and total forgiveness of your entire life and smile at the bouquet in your hands because it truly is beautiful.

Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads. They go to stock-car races and the horror movies and the wrestling matches they have in Portland Expo. Maybe what she said smacked of all those things, but I admired her for saying out loud, all the same--the price of honesty is always high. She had an admirable grasp of the fundamentals. Besides, she was tiny and pretty.