Richard Paul Evans Quotes

I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

You don't realize it till you get older as an actor, but all the parts you've gotten have led you up to today - good, bad, and otherwise.

It's only through aging and going through heartbreak and loss and successes and failures that you can look back and look at the mistakes some young people make.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.

Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.

Failure can only open more doors for you as a person and as growth and life.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."

I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.

Dream big, my friend, and never give up. We all make mistakes, but none of us are mistakes. Take one day at a time. Embrace the positive attitudes, perspectives, principles and truths I share, and you, too, will overcome.

I would tell anyone, pick the person you love the most, the musician, the actor, public figure, whatever, and watch a bunch of their interviews and find ones where they talk about all the times they've failed, all the times they weren't good enough, and watch those on the regular. It's a very unique type of inspiration. It's almost like spiritual jumper cables for your inner drive.

Look, there are no shortcuts in golf, and there are no shortcuts in life. You have to work for it. Dream big and keep your dreams for yourself. Because the dreams that you have are those things that separate you from others. If you give up your dream, you give up hope. And without hope, you are nothing.

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.

I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

Off the top of my head, I can't really think of anyone who really took me under their wing. You get advice from everyone. Kate Moss once said to me, "Don't worry about the past, just keep going." That has always sort of stuck with me.

I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.