Richard L. Evans Quotes

Keep making the movements of life.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog you down.

If you were to be put off by every little problem life throws at you, you'd get nowt done.

Once the opportunities knock on your door, you've got to try and go get them. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. But at the same time, you've got to keep going.

Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.

We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.

I don't sit back and count up what I've done. There's just always something else to do. There's always a challenge ahead.

My advice: Just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

A lot of people complain about yesterday. We have no power to change yesterday. But this very day, 30 years later, is what we can control and decide. Change yourself, take baby steps, and stay determined for ten years. I thank the times of change and everyone’s complaints. Because when everyone is complaining, that is your chance, an opportunity. It’s only in times of change that someone can be clear of what he has and wants, and what he needs to give up.

I try all things, I achieve what I can.

I think there are always going to be things that you're going to want to do. It's about picking yourself back up and starting again.

Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

For sure I think that at the end of the day if I got started a little sooner on stuff that was more written more permanent I would have just made a lot of mistakes earlier. I don't know if it would have led to earlier success but I think it would have led to thicker skin and it would have gotten the ball rolling.

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.

I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.

There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

The road to success is long and up hill all the way

Whatever you do, stay focused. Because any stuff is not going to last forever. Once you get a show at something, you gotta roll with it. You can't sit on your ass. You better keep working. You better stay motivated.