Richard L. Evans Quotes

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

I think I'm always learning, I'm always trying to be at my best.

I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

I always say there are two things to be successful. The first is decide exactly what you want - set your goals - and then determine how you will achieve them (what skills you will have to learn, what actions will you have to take). And these are totally under your control. These are not dependent upon anyone else.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.