Richard Paul Evans Quotes

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.

You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.

Nothing is easy, and as far as my modelling career goes, the path to the top has been long and difficult, but that's what makes it special. I always look back to remind myself where I've come from.

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.

You can't just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give 'em wings, arms, legs...whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.

Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That’s why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.

It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.

When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement.

You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.

Lord, we don't need another mountain.

More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be.

I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.