Top 40 Richard L. Evans Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Your direction is more important than your speed.”

— Richard L. Evans

2. “Enjoy life while it is happening.”

— Richard L. Evans

3. “Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.”

— Richard L. Evans

4. “We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn’t do.”

— Richard L. Evans

5. “Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”

— Richard L. Evans

6. “There’s no pillow quite so soft as a father’s strong shoulder.”

— Richard L. Evans

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7. “If you don’t want temptation to follow you, don’t act as if you are interested.”

— Richard L. Evans

8. “Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”

— Richard L. Evans

9. “One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.”

— Richard L. Evans

10. “This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?”

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11. “He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.”

— Richard L. Evans

12. “May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, or shouldn’t have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.”

— Richard L. Evans

13. “I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.”

— Richard L. Evans

14. “Shouldn’t the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read!”

— Richard L. Evans

15. “Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.”

— Richard L. Evans

16. “There is no loneliness so great, so absolute, so utterly complete, as the loneliness of a man who cannot call upon his God.”

— Richard L. Evans

17. “Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.”

— Richard L. Evans

18. “It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.”

— Richard L. Evans

19. “Parents who indulge themselves ‘in moderation’ may have children who indulge themselves to excess.”

— Richard L. Evans

20. “Any man who can’t control his thoughts can’t control his actions, and any man who can’t control his actions isn’t safe in society.”

— Richard L. Evans

21. “Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.”

— Richard L. Evans

22. “May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.”

— Richard L. Evans

23. “Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself – things could always be worse and they are for someone else!”

— Richard L. Evans

24. “A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.”

— Richard L. Evans

25. “Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.”

— Richard L. Evans

26. “Things I don’t understand don’t destroy my faith in the things I do understand.”

— Richard L. Evans

27. “We must not let the things we can’t do keep us from doing the things we can do.”

— Richard L. Evans

28. “No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.”

— Richard L. Evans

29. “What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn’t do once today!”

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30. “We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.”

— Richard L. Evans

31. “There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished – and all of us will some day meet it face to face.”

— Richard L. Evans

32. “One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don’t always ask.”

— Richard L. Evans

33. “What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.”

— Richard L. Evans

34. “Someone has to do everything that is done.”

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35. “We must carry things beyond conversation to conclusion.”

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36. “Give no man sympathy because he has to work – it is his blessing that he can.”

— Richard L. Evans

37. “We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.”

— Richard L. Evans

38. “There must be a priority of values in all our lives.”

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39. “The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?”

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40. “The test of love is in how we live.”

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41. “Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.”

— Richard L. Evans

42. “Live so as to have a quiet conscience.”

— Richard L. Evans

43. “A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.”

— Richard L. Evans

44. “Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that ‘someone’ is us.”

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45. “Happiness mainly depends on man’s ability to work and the way in which he does it.”

— Richard L. Evans