Top 200 Stephen Richards Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.”

— Stephen Richards

153. “I thought they were going to kill me there and then, which would have been a relief. To my horror, they spoke words that I will never forget: ‘We are going to keep you in the cellar and let our black friends use you and when they have finished with you, we will kill you and bury you under the paving stones of Gloucester. There are hundreds of girls there, the police haven’t found them and they wont find you!”

— Stephen Richards

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

— Stephen Richards

155. “There is no need for a long, persuasive introduction about self-confidence. If you are not a confident person, you already know it.”

— Stephen Richards

156. “Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there.”

— Stephen Richards

157. “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

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

— Stephen Richards

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

— Stephen Richards

160. “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

161. “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

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

— Stephen Richards

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

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164. “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

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

— Stephen Richards

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

— Stephen Richards

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

— Stephen Richards

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

— Stephen Richards

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

— Stephen Richards

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

— Stephen Richards

171. “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.”

— Stephen Richards

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

— Stephen Richards

173. “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.”

— Stephen Richards

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

— Stephen Richards

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. “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.”

— Stephen Richards

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

— Stephen Richards

178. “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.”

— Stephen Richards

179. “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

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

— Stephen Richards

181. “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

182. “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

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

— Stephen Richards

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

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185. “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

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

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187. “Triumphing over great difficulties can lead to great happiness.”

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188. “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

189. “Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.”

— Stephen Richards

190. “The crowd were totally behind him and it spurred him on, I was right in the heat of battle. There was only one to win; I dug deep and summoned up every bit of strength, I had in me to put in to one punch to see if I could hit the jackpot. I drew him to the ropes and put everything in to a cracking right uppercut and just missed, bastard!”

— Stephen Richards

191. “So long as you are going in the right direction then the speed of your travel is unimportant.”

— Stephen Richards

192. “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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193. “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!”

— Stephen Richards

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

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195. “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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196. “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.”

— Stephen Richards

197. “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

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

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199. “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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200. “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?”

— Stephen Richards