Richard Paul Evans Quotes

Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Defeat is tough.

When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

Champions all get kicked when they're down.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle

I need to get hit in the face. I need to get dropped hard before I can really circle the wagons and proceed. It breaks you out of being complacent, of being in your comfort zone.

For me, 'Soul Deep' wasn't an easy thing to do.

Failure affects me hard.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

It's fun to play somebody who's kind of struggling.

Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.

If you’re hard on yourself, life will be easy on you.

Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.

Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

There was a time where I was really confused about who I was and what I was doing, and I was just kind of depressed.

Year 6 was the toughest one yet for me. That was the first time in my life I couldn't put my whole heart into basketball.

When the chips are down, life forces you to take inventory and reevaluate the people in your life.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.