Top 200 Stephen Richards Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “There’s just no comparison between these hard men, some fight with their bare hands, some with their brains and some with weapons. Some have a sixth sense for survival, avoiding death with catlike ease. I don’t include any world champ at this or that, but I do include men that would wipe the floor with any world champion at anything you wanted to throw at them.”

— Stephen Richards

152. “Whenever you enjoy the bounties of nature like the sunrise or a blooming flower you are connecting yourself with the pure potentiality.”

— Stephen Richards

153. “Though money cannot acquire you happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together.”

— Stephen Richards

154. “Dreams give purpose to one’s life. If you do not wish anything better for yourself or for your loved ones, then life loses meaning.”

— Stephen Richards

155. “In the last round I was so wiped-out that for the first time in my life I tried to get disqualified. He was throwing punches non-stop and he was dangerous with those shots and becoming a little bit too cute for my liking. I backed to the ropes and catapulted off them and nutted him.”

— Stephen Richards

156. “The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way.”

— Stephen Richards

157. “It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer.”

— Stephen Richards

158. “To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose but to pass the time.”

— Stephen Richards

159. “Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.”

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160. “I was becoming a product of society, a hardened juvenile! Now I was becoming rebellious and hateful.”

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161. “It’s no shame in reaching second or third base if you aimed for first base.”

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162. “Mad people are very emotionally orientated! They have complex feelings, they’re easily upset, but are also easy to please! Most mad people have lonely lives, as nobody understands them. So they become “Lost Souls.” They dream a lot. Go within their minds to search – some will turn strange, become dangerous. So a madman is created! His world becomes a mission.”

— Stephen Richards

163. “Everyone in the place seen me nut him apart from the ref, it caught him on the blind side. I tried to nut him on the eyebrow so it would split open, but I got him on the forehead. The crowd turned right against me, but I made it to the last bell and lost on a unanimous decision.”

— Stephen Richards

164. “The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.”

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165. “Allowing a negative sentence in your head to end itself forms the very nucleus of negative thoughtforms!”

— Stephen Richards

166. “When you truly love yourself, you do not accept abusive relationships, because you know you deserve better.”

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167. “Base your self-esteem on truth.”

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168. “Time and space have no meaning, just as your conscious thoughts are meaningless.”

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169. “When we give up our dreams then we are merely existing and not living.”

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170. “For that thought to be strong, however, it must be free of doubt, for doubt weakens the will, weakens the response of the universe, and slows the manifestation of desire.”

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171. “When you are loved you never die.”

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172. “Write down what you want your destiny to be, and in so doing you will live your dreams.”

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173. “The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.”

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174. “Cosmic Ordering is an ever full piggy bank.”

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175. “I felt like Dirty Harry, only, my weapon wasn’t as big as his! I don’t know what it is with guns, but once you’ve got your hand on one, you think you’re one of the untouchables.”

— Stephen Richards

176. “When you begin to entertain the more positive possibilities, hope for the best, plan for the best and expect the best, your eventual attraction of the best possible circumstances is almost guaranteed.”

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177. “I must have been crazy for taking that fight, I should have told Anth to get on his bike, but what made it worse was I knew if I were in shape I’d have beaten him inside of two rounds. Some people reckon fighters must have a little madness in them, I reckon they might be right.”

— Stephen Richards

178. “Millionaires, though, see objects like diamonds and good feelings merely as fruits. The root of true wealth, in fact, stems from your behaviors.”

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179. “I wished at that moment that the Wests had killed me, it would have been a merciful release from the hell that DC Smith was putting me through. This barrage of questions by DC Smith and his heavy-handedness into this inquiry and his bullying barrack-room interrogation style of interviewing had left me feeling shamed.”

— Stephen Richards

180. “I pulled the homemade jail knife out that I had in my hand, Porkie pulled out the very sharp lockback knife that he had concealed up his sleeve. We told the warden and nurse to sit on the floor, and if they did as we told them then no one would get hurt.”

— Stephen Richards

181. “Once you clear that mind clutter out, the doorways for what you desire are open.”

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182. “If you want a new life, first give praise for having the old one!”

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183. “There are no prizes for defying yourself.”

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184. “Another man of sheer violence was the late Stewart Boyd, he was killed in a car accident over in Spain’s Costa del Sol shortly after being released from prison in June 2003. But he certainly left his mark on the city streets of Glasgow. He was a force to be reckoned with, a gang enforcer. Murder and witness intimidation were high on his criminal charge sheet.”

— Stephen Richards

185. “Just like a sailor who knows before reaching land that it is nearing, life too gives certain signals which indicate how closer you are to manifesting.”

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186. “Each person has got a voice inside them. Communicate with it and take hold of it. Do not let it push and shove you around – you are its master!”

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187. “The screws are just as bad as us, maybe not now but certainly in the past they used to beat you with their riot batons, strip you naked, cuff your hands behind your backs and then take shots of kicking you in the head and body until you were knocked out.”

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188. “The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.”

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189. “Big or small, be ready to do your part when you dare to dream and you will be rewarded with success from the Universe.”

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190. “Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.”

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191. “I keep telling the screws over and over again, ‘If you treat a young boy in prison like a dog, keep him in a cell that is like a cage and constantly beat him and bully him, that boy is going to grow up hating yous and the system.’ The only thing on his mind will be revenge, maybe it is not revenge on the screws that so frequently bullied and tortured him, but in the boy’s eyes he is getting revenge on the uniform, as it all means the same thing in the boy’s or man’s eyes.”

— Stephen Richards

192. “When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.”

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193. “Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.”

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194. “When I reached the age of five, I was told I was adopted as a baby, at that time I was gun and holster mad, a bit of a lone ranger, as was the rage in those days. My parents, Tom and Brenda, told me they went to see all these special kids and they picked me out from them. Waiting for my reaction, I looked up at my parents and chimed, ‘Did I have my guns on?”

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195. “Do not focus on your failings, for you will only encourage them. If you keep beating yourself up on the head over these, you will only reinforce them.”

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196. “I used self-injury as a coping mechanism to help me overcome the emotional stress that I was incapable of dealing with in any other way. Self-injury was a means of escape, a way to relieve the numbness, and an expression of the pain within me. Something that the police wouldn’t care about.”

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197. “Before Mags became a household name across Scotland, it was during the mid Nineties when she became an avid anti-paedophile campaigner against paedophiles on the Raploch Estate, attracting media attention, even appearing on Robert Kilroy-Silk’s morning TV show. At the height of her anti-paedophilic crusade, she led a howling mob of protesters to a hostel near her home where a known paedophile was staying.”

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198. “Think about it, if you can pick up on the vibes and thoughts of others then surely you can send out your own vibes and thoughts to others with a little conscious effort!”

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199. “Do not invest time and money into yourself to have others completely destroy it!”

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200. “Sand did not suddenly come into being because we had need for glass and silicone. Neither did wild flowers suddenly spring up because a bunch of environmentalists in Texas wanted alternative ways of helping the world without dumping more chemicals into it – these things were already there.”

— Stephen Richards