Andy Andrews Quotes

#1. Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

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#2. The work you will complete during the next few years is critical not only to the future of your own children but also to the future of your nation as well. Unless you want to end up like Rome.

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#3. Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

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#4. I'm not saying find someone and ask them if you can mow their grass for ten dollars. I'm saying find weeds that need pulling and pull them.

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#5. Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely. Don't squander your words or your thoughts. Consider that even the simplest actions you take for your lives matter beyond measure ... and they matter forever.

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#6. Character, not circumstance, make a man.

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#7. He who serves the most grows the fastest. I

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#8. I've got to be willing to enter into and do battle with the confusion in order to reach the victory on the other side. It's like, I am here, confusion is in front of me, and just beyond confusion waits the answer or skill I need to take my life in a new and incredible direction.

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#9. I am not a "Christian author." I am an author who is a Christian. While my books reflect my faith, they are not intended as teaching tools for a Christian audience per se. My books are stories created around principles that work for everyone and they work every time.

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#10. How would you create a fortune?' and the first step would be to serve others. I would put myself in a position, by serving others, to be around people who could help me, guide me, and share their wisdom and experience with me.

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#11. The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.

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#12. Historians have determined that had Chamberlain not charged that day, the rebels would have won at Gettysburg.

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#13. Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure. By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.

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#14. Truth is like a wild animal; let it loose and it will defend itself!

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#15. I now know that criticism is part of the price paid for leaping past mediocrity.

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#16. Failure exists only for the person who quits. I do not quit.

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#17. Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.

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#18. Everything you do matters. Every move you make, every action you take ... matters. Not just to you, or your family, or your business or hometown. Everything you do matters to all of us forever.

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#19. While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect, every single action a person takes has far-reaching consequences.

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#20. It is a fact that fewer than 10 percent of Germany's population of 79.7 million people actively worked or campaigned to bring about Hitler's change.17 Even at the height of its power in 1945, the Nazi political party boasted only 8.5 million members.

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#21. When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

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#22. Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!

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#23. And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.

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#24. You read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television. Of

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#25. And his legacy. If you are doing what everyone else is doing, you are doing something wrong. Why? Because most people are not obtaining results that are considered extraordinary.

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#26. What would you think if I told you that, yes, your bad choices and decisions have had a part in your ending up under this pier, but beyond that, under this pier is exactly where you should be in order for a future to occur that you can't even imagine at this point?

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#27. Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.

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#28. We can't stay here. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act.

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#29. Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.

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#30. By your hand the people shall live

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#31. My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

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#32. No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always-always-makes itself known.

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#33. Life is like a game of Monopoly. You may own hotels on Boardwalk or you may be renting on Baltic Avenue. But in the end, it all goes back in the box. The next generation will be getting out all your stuff and playing with it or fighting over it.

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#34. All people - all lives - are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.

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#35. We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

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#36. I understand that what I am to do is to be a bridge between the people who would never set foot in a church in their entire lives and people who would like to get them there. So I write books that Christians can give to their non-Christian friends that they will actually read.

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#37. At this very moment, you possess the power of perspective. You can choose to see your life becoming whatever you wish. If you so choose, you can move the mountains in your life's path with the eventual help of those who will come to love you and learn to respect you for what you are becoming.

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#38. WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

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#39. getting ahead of me, but that is correct. Say it

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#40. Adversity is preparation for greatness.

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#41. If you do not want an average life, you must be on guard against, and quietly suspicious of, conclusions made by conventional thinking.

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#42. But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

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#43. When people have something proven to them, and they see that it really benefits them, they don't have to be looking for a change or be at rock bottom. When they see something proven that is of benefit to them, they'll turn around 180 degrees and never look back.

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#44. It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!

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#45. By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

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#46. I had always been able to make people laugh in school, so I really developed that and worked on it and I got pretty good at it and it turned into a career.

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#47. It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.

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#48. When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

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#49. Most people spend so much time fearing the things that are never going to happen or can't be controlled that they have no energy to deal with the few things they can actually handle.

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#50. This was getting out of control. I was about to back out of the room when

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#51. Are you smiling when you talk? Try it today, and I guarantee you will notice a difference in your life.

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#52. Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn't. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change ... but change happens in a heartbeat!

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#53. Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.

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#54. I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!

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#55. I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.

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#56. I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.

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#57. I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

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#58. The difference in the past and history is that the past is set in stone history is just an account from the guy with the strongest axe

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#59. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

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#60. There are a few of us who have latched on to this silly idea that we can change the world. We will develop the power to ignore what is popular and do what is right. One person can attain the power to lead hundreds of thousands of people to the promised land of their dreams.

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#61. If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside." ~ The Traveler's Gift

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#62. Be kind to yourself and congratulate yourself for small success.A small step cover a big distance-enjoy the journey of life.

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#63. There are generations yet unborn,
whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

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#64. There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.

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#65. I just think it's amazing that a person could lose everything, chasing nothing.

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#66. A butterfly could flap its wings and set molecules of air in motion, which would move other molecules of air, in turn moving more molecules of air - eventually capable of starting a hurricane on the other side of the planet.

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#67. It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

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#68. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

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#69. We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive ... by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.

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#70. The culture you live in today is the culture you have allowed. That is true of your family, and it is true of your country.
Never forget that you will shape the culture in which you exist, or the culture you allow will determine how and - maybe someday - if you are allowed to exist.

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#71. The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.

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#72. A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.

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#73. My smile has become my calling card. It is, after all, the most potent weapon I possess.

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#74. After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.

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#75. Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

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#76. I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.

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#77. Even a small amount of perspective can change our lives. Because even the smallest amount of perspective can change how we are able to navigate hard times.

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#78. Most people live under the misconception that it takes a long time to change. This is not true. It can take a long time to prepare to change or to decide to change or even to want to change. Change itself, however, happens in a heartbeat.

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#79. Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.

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#80. First we make a choice. Then our choices make us.

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#81. When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.

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#82. Most people equate value with money, and money does have value. But the highest value-the most important value-is the value you create with your life and how you use it for others.

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#83. Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed.

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#84. I think a lot of what is involved in finding a noticer is to watch people and see what fruit people have on the tree. You examine that life and see if it has the kind of fruit you want to produce in your life.

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#85. From this moment forward, I will accept responsibility for my past. I understand that the beginning of wisdom is to accept the responsibility for my own problems and that by accepting responsibility for my past, I free myself to move into a bigger, brighter future of my own choosing.

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#86. Ask yourself this question everyday: What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

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#87. I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way to help people. For another, it is a seed one is planting for the life of the book. Someone gave it to someone who gave it to someone else.

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#88. I have faith in my future. I do not look left or right. I look forward. I can only persist.

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#89. Much of your success in life is determined by how you choose to act in spite of how you feel.

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#90. Every single day for the rest of your life, somebody is going to push you in the pool. And you'd better decide now how you're going to act when it happens>

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#91. Jesus is Jesus. So, I'm not sure I'd get into the business of making somebody into Jesus. That's just me.

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#92. People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier.

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#93. In times of adversity, you don't have a problem to deal with; you have a choice to make.

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#94. Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

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#95. Whatever you focus upon, increases.

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#96. A wise man will cultivate a servant's spirit, for that particular attribute attracts people like no other. As I humbly serve others, their wisdom will be freely shared with me. Often, the person who develops a servant's spirit becomes wealthy beyond measure.

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#97. People who other people value get job offers, they get opportunities, and they get encouragement all because they are valued.

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#98. While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.

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#99. Then the old man's face hardened. "What about you young man?" he asked flatly. "Would you like to get what you deserve?" Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said "Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.

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#100. I started finding humor in everything. I used to watch a lot of TV, and I finally figured I didn't need to watch TV to find funny stuff. I just watch the commercials. I mean, the commercials just blew my mind.

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