Top 100 Stephen Richards Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Stephen Richards

#1. I had a burning desire in me to win and started to get him on the back foot. I was looking for that one special shot when I put him down with the famous Horsley Muckspreader right hand ... an unstoppable force. Incredibly, he got up and took the count and the ref waved us to continue.

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#2. Though it may be interesting to know how many hairs there are on the human head, or how the giant red spot on the surface of Jupiter was formed, the real truths we are interested in are those about ourselves.

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#3. When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.

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#4. Gradually, the physical cruelty and punishment beatings started and it got worse. He'd be on his knees to try to teach me how to fight, so my father made out. Whack! His hand would slap in to my face with the full force might of a 6ft 4in 18st man!

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#5. Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed.

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#6. Cooking is great, but the meal that has been prepared for you with love is the best.

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#7. 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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#8. Take what is good from the past
and carve a new path.

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#9. When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.

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#10. Another crucial problem was errors made by the
Cambridgeshire Police in their use of their 'check
system', which allowed Huntley to get a job at Soham
Village College.

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#11. The police were actually adding to my pain and
suffering by pursuing me. If it had been Huntley doing that to me and I had the proof, I would have said, 'Hey, Mr Policeman, Huntley is giving me trouble here,' and then they might have sent him a letter, at the very least.

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#12. Future leaps from the present, formed by the thought processes of mankind.

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#13. The universe is infinite, so there is room for everyone, for every belief, for every custom, and for every desire. You are in competition with no one but yourself.

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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. If you believe in what you do for tomorrow then today you will get your hands dirty ...

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#16. I had no reason to feel wary of Huntley.There were no warning signs or anything like that. Little did I know there were allegations against Huntley going back as far as August 1995 ...

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#17. Live it already, write about it from the point of view of already having it, and be so happy and grateful at its impending arrival.

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#18. In an unforgiving world, chaos rules.

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#19. I opened my coat and flashed the gun to Brew, all I had to do was point it and pull the trigger and that would be the end of one of my enemies. I'd probably have to shoot the second as he ran way from me totting the gun.

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#20. The heart is where the journey of forgiveness begins.

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#21. A person who won't do it has no advantage over someone who can't do it.

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#22. The twisted thing about doing what you're good at is that you aren't really good at it until you do it over and over and over again.

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#23. I had not learned anything about Huntley that would
have alerted me to what he was. I had no reason, as an 11-year-old girl, to be wary of him. No one said, 'This guy likes to have sex with young girls.

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#24. Your life you are living now is a creation of your mind, but if you search deep down you will discover the capacity to create an even better life ... try it!

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#25. 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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#26. I started to turn my life around for the better and try to instil a bit of stability and balance back in to it and take a back seat to violence. I wanted to leave that part of my life behind. The leopard wanted to ditch its spots!

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#27. Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ...

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#28. Whatever you desire, it comes from the universe, and whatever you manifest, be it situations, the right partner, friend, or spouse, the right pet, anything at all, IS the universe, for the universe IS everything.

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#29. Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.

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#30. True friendship never questions what it costs you.

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#31. Your level of your concentration decides the extent of the realization of your dreams.

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#32. I started to develop a penchant for the odd hot foil of smack. After all those years of calling junkies 'the scum of the earth', I had now fallen by the wayside and had become a junkie myself!

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#33. The riot screws didn't give a monkey's about the state he was in, no sir. They dragged him by his hair in to the first cell that was opened, where he was stripped and beaten.

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#34. Successful people got to where they did because they did something, and all successful endeavors exist because of those who acted.

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#35. When you do not see the beauty in the things around you, nothing will be adequate to you.

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#36. At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it.

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#37. The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.

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#38. I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.

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#39. If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering.

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#40. When you truly love yourself, you do not accept abusive relationships, because you know you deserve better.

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#41. Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes.

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#42. You are more than just flesh and bones; you are unlimited energy and power.

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#43. Keeping the commandments ... is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

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#44. While there is nothing wrong with physical desire per se, and wanting a partner who you consider to be physically attractive, you should also understand that if you are serious about finding that special someone and perhaps growing old with them, looks fade but character does not.

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#45. We can only find those faults in others that already exist within us, and the same goes for those things we admire about them.

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#46. 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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#47. If you cast doubt aside then you go beyond where even you could have imagined ...

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#48. If it doesn't take your breath away, make a bigger wish.

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#49. Thought and passion = successful manifesting of wishes ...

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#50. My father was always suppressing the softer side of my nature; it seemed to have disappeared in the course of those boxing lessons, that's what boxing did to me. My father took away the real me and replaced all what I could have been by imposing his brutal regime of terror upon me.

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#51. If you cannot get a job then make a living for yourself.

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#52. I went for a private sitting with a clairvoyant and got some really good messages off him, but one thing that did frighten me was when he said, 'I can see a lot of fist fighting with you.

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#53. How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.

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#54. 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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#55. Philosophers think, creators make!

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#56. 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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#57. All things that exist form an endless area of quantum energy with infinite possibilities waiting to happen.

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#58. 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.

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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. Eventually what was the superhuman becomes the common, the ordinary, the mundane.

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#62. The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect, and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage, and weakness.

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#63. 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.

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#64. If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.

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#65. It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one can gain mastery over them so that they do not take the upper hand.

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#66. 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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#67. Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still had and still do have respect for the old school policeman.

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#68. An empty mind is easy to feed.

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#69. The basis of Cosmic Ordering is the belief that the universe is not dead matter, but pure energy which responds to our vibrations and to our frequencies.

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#70. I waltzed into the hall with my escort of five screws like some rapper with his well-paid entourage. A fiendish looking, little bastard with blonde hair and a crooked nose came up to me and said, 'Okay, Holland, welcome to Shotts. Welcome to the man-eater!

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#71. 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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#72. Resentment's appetite is never fulfilled.

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#73. The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.

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#74. The more you give, the less you need.

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#75. Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.

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#76. Desperation sends out the wrong messages, sends out the wrong vibrational output.

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#77. If you can't win with words then show them a good example!

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#78. If you want more than what most have, then you must do far more than what it is they do.

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#79. As they crept closer, I decided to make my move first and surprise them. I selected my prey, the biggest one! The reasoning behind this is that if you deck the largest and strongest one out of a group then it sends out a clear-cut message to the rest of them.

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#80. If your goals don't inspire you then why should you expect to achieve them?

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#81. 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.

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#82. Everyone in the valleys knew me and because of that, so many people used my name in the valleys that there must have been at least a hundred times a night that the name 'Malcolm Price' was used.

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#83. After a couple of weeks in Polmont, I started to become more assertive and began arguing with older, bigger boys. I loved it. This is where my ugly side would make some scary and unpredictable appearances. Even to this day, I can go from a happy-go-lucky cunt to the devil on acid.

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#84. You must wake up to the truth that whoever you are, that whatever you have or think you do not have, you are perfect in the here and now. Unless you can accept yourself, you will never be satisfied with anything, because it all begins with yourself.

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#85. Dare to share and in doing so you multiply your results without even trying ...

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#86. When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.

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#87. Aberdeenshire's Peterhead jail housed the hardest, badest, meanest motherfucker prisoners in the Scottish prison system. So no one was surprised when the pressure pot jail finally erupted in to violence that has not been seen or equalled since.

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#88. 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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#89. I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies.

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#90. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.

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#91. Life can only give you what you give back to it, and it all begins with the right attitude.

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#92. When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.

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#93. To allow others to shine, stand in the shade ...

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#94. The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.

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