Top 100 Stephen Richards Quotes
#1. Dicing with death is one man's cup of tea, but another man's poison. I just didn't fear anything.
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#2. Obviously it's hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!
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#3. Understand that you and you alone create your own opportunities, whether they come to you in the form of a lottery ticket, or a promotion, you brought that into your life.
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#4. I could see the reflection of the moon on the water's surface, tantalisingly teasing me forward, that was my target ... swimming towards the moon and freedom. I could smell the brine and sense the power of the mass I was in, it engulfed me, yet I was one with it.
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#5. Barbarianism and finesse cannot be rolled into one, Pricey defeats this theory. The barbarianism born from his fight to make it in life, his finesse brought about by his sensitivity that was deprived of him when he was a child.
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#6. Thirteen years have past since 1993, and I still have not seen one single book, documentary or anything to the biggest epidemic in Scottish, British prison history. I would go as far and say, no other prison in the world had fourteen men catching the HIV virus at the same time.
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#9. Life can only give you what you give back to it, and it all begins with the right attitude.
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#10. Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals.
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#11. The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.
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#12. If you believe in what you do for tomorrow then today you will get your hands dirty ...
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#13. I never knew any of these people who were using my name, if I had a fiver for every time my name was used for protective purposes by these people to ward off trouble then I'd be a millionaire many times over by now.
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#14. Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done. When you get to that time that is now, make a full and total forgiveness of your entire life and smile at the bouquet in your hands because it truly is beautiful.
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#15. You are more than just flesh and bones; you are unlimited energy and power.
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#16. Sometimes being a friend is enough in its own right to inspire someone on to victory.
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#17. Show respect to all. If you accept that all is undifferentiated oneness, and that all things are merely different aspects of that one thing (but vibrating at different frequencies), then you must respect yourself and everything and everyone around you.
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#18. You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!
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#19. 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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#20. Every desire to modify in your life begins with the intention to do so.
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#21. The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.
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#22. No successful business is run through thought. It requires people who work.
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#23. No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder.
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#24. The riot screws did not stop there, they dragged him down the corridor where ten other nameless screws repeatedly coshed him over the head and face and body. Dingus by now was totally out cold, he had received the equivalent injuries of someone who was involved in a car crash.
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#25. Dyslexia, for me, is rather like being a six-fingered typist on LSD!
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#26. When you use positive words it naturally has a very dynamic effect on the energy present around you.
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#28. The word 'believe' is an important factor in you securing your success.
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#29. When you keep a strong image of what you want in your mind, and possess the conviction that it is yours by right, you send out powerful vibrations to the farthest reaches of the universe.
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#31. The formula for success is Cosmic Ordering, the formula for failure is worry.
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#32. As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
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#33. Some people believe they are lucky, and in their belief, become so. Others believe that when good things come to them, it was mere chance, but are grateful, just the same. Either way, it is the expectation of those good things that sets the process of mind power in motion.
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#34. Sometimes your wish can become chaos ... be careful what you wish for!
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#35. Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.
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#36. If it is about education, then all who are college graduates should be wealthy, but we know that there are many highly educated, highly qualified, and highly experienced people who just manage to scrape by, if at all.
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#37. At 31 years of age, Fred West was a big man trapped in a little man's body. He thought himself to be a gynecologist and Warren Beatty look-a-like all rolled into one ... the surgeon and the stud.
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#39. Stop being a slave to your past and you become the master of your future.
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#40. By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU.
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#41. When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.
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#42. I dived out of the office and I was gone ... hitting these fields like a mad March hare. This wasn't Born Free, it was RUN FREE!
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#43. Over the next sixteen years, I would grow close to the ringleaders of the infamous Peterhead Prison Riot and hostage-taking incidents would loom large in my life.
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#44. This inner Being is all powerful, intelligent, indestructible and a storehouse of knowledge and wisdom. This inner core is truly who and what you are and is perpetually trying to connect with your outward self.
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#46. You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.
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#47. Over the years you have been subjected to a great deal of mind propaganda which has resulted in you reaching the ceiling of maximum potential by virtue of your current limited mindset.
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#48. Nowadays I just don't care; I've taken the Frank Zappa stance. I am who I am! Some love me, some loathe me, some respect me and some despise me. But after all that's been, I still love the insane! As they're exciting, dangerous and highly explosive! For me mad dogs are gentlemen.
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#49. I knew I hadn't been the most innocent of victims, but I didn't deserve this. DC Smith stood and grinned at me as he thanked me and left the room, leaving me to cry and to ponder on his not very adept handling of the situation.
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#50. Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have the same right with their own lives, even if their design differs from yours greatly.
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#51. You will find your horizons expanding and your thought processes becoming more creative. That is true mind power!
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#52. Some of the madmen are really fun to be with. I soon learnt to relate to them. I soon became one of them. I ended up the maddest of the mad. There is no madder than myself! Please believe it.
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#53. Like Lenny McLean said, and I agree with him totally, he told me it's these bastards that hurt the old people and fuck up the young kids, they are the animals and they hardly get any prison sentence for it.
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#54. Anger is the fire of the soul, love is the language of the heart ...
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#56. Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.
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#57. He lost a few teeth and wet himself in to the next century. I looked up at his mates and none of them would look me in the face.
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#58. Only through a steady mind and constant faith can your desires manifest.
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#60. Daring also means to act, however, and if you are not willing to act, then you have already lost the game.
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#61. When you send out a powerful thought into the universe, you send out ripples to all parts of it which come back to you, reflecting what it is you sent out.
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#62. Don't settle for a half empty glass, always go for a full one!
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#63. One lesson I learned from all of this, and that was a hard one, for all of the good I did people, it was never remembered. I was the one doing jail, not them. Apart from a small circle of close loyal friends, I was and am on my own.
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#64. The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.
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#65. You can do almost anything if you put your mind to it. Be it the perfect murder, robbing a bank or owning your own company. I don't go along with Prince Charles' maxim that everyone should know their place and limitations.
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#66. Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest.
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#67. This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.
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#68. What your mind wants to believe will become the reality, regardless of the truth or falsity in the statement.
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#69. The makeup of your thoughts is exposed through your internal dialog.
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#70. I always thought of myself as being the unluckiest girl I knew. I was, I believed, a 'jinx' and I was 'jinxed', or so I thought!
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#71. Ruling or judging others is considered to be a sentiment that resonates in very low frequencies.
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#73. If you knew the power within yourself to be truly happy, to be truly whole, then you would never ask another to become the image you desire for yourself, in order to be happy and whole.
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#74. Madness is forever! We even smell different, our hearts don't beat, they tick, our eyes are different, we don't just see, we also pick up vibes. We are probably dehumanised and way past our 'sell by' date, totally unusable, bitter as lemons.
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#75. For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.
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#77. The moment you become friends with your inner Self, you realize that the failures or hindrances that you met earlier were caused more by your disconnected status with your inner Being.
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#78. Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.
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#79. When you are desperately grabbing at straws all you get is a handful of weeds.
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#80. After my victory at the Warriors 1, the self-proclaimed and well named Monarch of the Underworld, Dave Courtney, came up to me and commended me when he said, 'Richy, you can hit, I'm fucking glad you're not hitting me.' The way Dave said it and the expression on his face made me laugh.
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#81. If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!
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#82. The problem with procrastination is it's been around since the beginning of time it seems.
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#83. 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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#84. She sat in a secluded room, she was mad, but she could not accept it; so she was neither sane nor insane. She could not be either until she knew herself, so in limbo she must die. She kept stuffing toilet roll into her mouth. They found her choked to death!
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#86. Positive thoughts and words will create a force inside you that communicates with the outside world and brings about profusion in all things around you.
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#87. Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.
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#88. All what stuck in my mind was what the judge had said, and that was during the assault there must have been some passive co-operation on my part. Added to the fact that the Wests had only been fined £25 each for each of the charges against them, a total of £100 was all that I was worth.
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#89. Do not allow your sad past to rule your present situation. Unlike a tango, it does not take to two to forgive.
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#90. If you align your vibrations and frequencies with those things you desire, you will acquire them.
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#91. Everything we could possibly want or need is there for the taking, but we are blinded by fears of lack and limitation, and we have bought the lie that resources are limited, so we must therefore compete for the few that are left.
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#92. If evil lingers around you, it will rub off on you, it will cause stress, anxiety and a lot of mental anguish! 'Eyes' - you can see evil in the eye of the beholder! Body! Talk! Stance! Walk! Posture! Evil oozes out!
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#93. The same zeal and guts with which you were persistent not to forgive is the same zeal and enthusiasm with which you should be able to open up a new relationship with your partner, loved one or friend, one that is founded on commitment and dedication.
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#94. If there is something you think you can do well, perfect the action.
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#95. Many wealthy people donate, and while the skeptical may claim that they do so for tax breaks, there is another reason involved ... as a spiritual practice.
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#96. You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!
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#97. With regards pedophilia I have always looked on it as that ... pedophilia. I thought that one religion is no different to the other and I am now truthfully beginning to think that.
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#98. Gratitude is a form of worship in its own right, as it implies the acceptance of a power greater than yourself.
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#99. The police still found this earlier omission in my statement hard to understand, but they weren't the ones who had been the victim of the Wests, how could they have understood?
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#100. Only by helping yourself first can you help the poor. Only by changing yourself first, can you change their condition. You achieve this by first removing from your mind any thoughts of poverty, for to think of something is to invoke it.
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