Stephen Richards Author Quotes & Sayings

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. — Stephen Richards

Most people with new ideas are ridiculed ... until they succeed! — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

Focus only on your successes and you will never know failure ... — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

If you believe that that the one opportunity you missed is the last one you'll ever get, then that is exactly what will happen: no more opportunities ever. — Stephen Richards

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

The word "universe" means "one tune" or "one rhythm", and when we are in tune or in rhythm with it, it cannot help but respond. — Stephen Richards

You will find your horizons expanding and your thought processes becoming more creative. That is true mind power! — Stephen Richards

Only your limited vision stops you seeing success ... open your mind and you open your vision. — Stephen Richards

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

Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you. — Stephen Richards

When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts. — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

Simply put, mind power is placing a request, or a wish, if you will, and trusting that somehow it will come to be. — Stephen Richards

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! — Stephen Richards

Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word 'give' is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein. — Stephen Richards

If you have given up something many times over then you are strong-willed in having done it so many times over! — Stephen Richards

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness. — Stephen Richards

Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing! — Stephen Richards

All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly. — Stephen Richards

You are more than just flesh and bones; you are unlimited energy and power. — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

Things, events and people align and position themselves accordingly when a strong enough thought stirs them. — Stephen Richards

Gratitude is a form of worship in its own right, as it implies the acceptance of a power greater than yourself. — Stephen Richards

The word 'believe' is an important factor in you securing your success. — Stephen Richards

Before you can give anyone a hand up, first you must get yourself up there to do so ... — Stephen Richards

Just as the universe is in constant flux, so too are we in constant change, and we must accept that. — Stephen Richards

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

The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone. — Stephen Richards

Dare to share and in doing so you multiply your results without even trying ... — Stephen Richards

To be bold is to be filled with magick, genius and power ... — Stephen Richards

Behind every dark cloud is a silver lining (photo taken by me yesterday afternoon). Just like a cloud is a free spirit ... allow your dreams to be the same and you will become the master of all you desire ... — Stephen Richards

Second class travel is better than third class walking. — Stephen Richards

It does not matter if you are asking for health, for happiness, for financial wealth, or for all three. It doesn't matter if you have no idea how this will come to you. Neither does it matter if you have no reason to expect it to. — Stephen Richards

When you believe in yourself with a passion then success can be spontaneous. — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow. — Stephen Richards

The more grateful we are, the more we practice this in our everyday lives, the more connected we become to the universe around us. — Stephen Richards

We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday. — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

If you want to be an action person be proactive rather than reactive ... — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

Cooking is great, but the meal that has been prepared for you with love is the best. — Stephen Richards

In order to receive in abundance ... give in abundance! — Stephen Richards

When you do not see the beauty in the things around you, nothing will be adequate to you. — Stephen Richards

Due to the need to co-exist with these inhuman and inconsiderate people, we will obviously be disturbed by their acts; something which if we look at closely actually means that we too could be affecting some other people negatively every once in a while. — Stephen Richards

If it doesn't take your breath away, make a bigger wish. — Stephen Richards

Sometimes your wish can become chaos ... be careful what you wish for! — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

Do not be deceived that you are weak because you have forgiven; instead be rest assured that you are now showing great strength - after all, forgiving is one of the most difficult things to do. — Stephen Richards

Stop being a mystery, discover yourself! — Stephen Richards

Even those who are materially poor have something to offer, and in doing so, open themselves up to the circular energy of generosity and abundance. — Stephen Richards

A broken and mended relationship turns out to be stronger than one that has never been broken, almost like how bones can become even stronger once broken and then healed. — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

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

There are many instances when one person is enough to change the world. — Stephen Richards

If you want more than what most have, then you must do far more than what it is they do. — Stephen Richards

This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn't look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

Courage of the mind far surpasses that of the body. — Stephen Richards

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

Now if you want to look to the medical profession for a true hard bastard, there is none harder, in my opinion, than the man I will now name. I mean, 99.9 per cent of doctors would want to protect their pension and keep in with the in-crowd, not, though, this man amongst men. The star witness against the screws from Barlinnie was Doctor Simon Danson. — Stephen Richards

Laughter is the most powerful weapon against verbal attack anyone can have. — Stephen Richards

I was a normal person, living in a rough area with a foreign mother, I endured it and came out of the other side to help hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to change their lives just like I had mine. — Stephen Richards

Stop being a slave to your past and you become the master of your future. — Stephen Richards

This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again. — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

Places of learning are full to brimming, but those with a real thirst for knowledge are few. Remain true to yourself and never stop learning ... — Stephen Richards

Mags seemed to attract trouble wherever she went. The Raploch Estate in Stirling was a nice backdrop, a middleclass place to live and bring up your kids until the scourge of drugs took a grip of its sons and daughters, like any other quiet township. The more the people needed drugs, the rougher and more violent the place became. — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

When you use positive words it naturally has a very dynamic effect on the energy present around you. — Stephen Richards

Only through a steady mind and constant faith can your desires manifest. — Stephen Richards

When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge. — Stephen Richards

In an unforgiving world, chaos rules. — Stephen Richards

Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW. — Stephen Richards

When you are desperately grabbing at straws all you get is a handful of weeds. — Stephen Richards

None of us are ordinary; we all have a story to tell. — Stephen Richards

If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash! — Stephen Richards

Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over. — Stephen Richards

Think big or die small!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! — Stephen Richards

Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process. — Stephen Richards

Ruling or judging others is considered to be a sentiment that resonates in very low frequencies. — Stephen Richards

Take what is good from the past
and carve a new path. — Jan Porter

Every desire to modify in your life begins with the intention to do so. — Stephen Richards

You know, in a society where children just about have to seek parental permission to sit on Santa's knee, the word 'paedophile' should send more shivers up your spine than the word 'druggie'. — Stephen Richards

It was so funny, I witnessed this with my own eyes, Andy and the screw were like two WWF wrestlers, we were locked behind the grill gates cheering Andy on, the chants started. The chant was to the tune of Jingle Bells and went like this: Stab a screw, stab a screw, stab a screw today, all that fun it is to stab a screw on New Year's Day, but it was only 29 December. — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable. — Stephen Richards

Neglected dreams become regrets. — Stephen Richards

As equally as one may use size, the cunning James Crosbie was once classified as the most dangerous man in Scotland, notorious for his daring bank robberies and escaping on a bicycle. He was the criminal mastermind behind many successful crimes carried out throughout the UK. — Stephen Richards

One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness. — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

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. — Stephen Richards

There are no new inventions, only new discoveries. — Stephen Richards

Mind power is my art ... ... so bring the canvas of your mind closer and I will create a masterpiece. — Stephen Richards

If your goals don't inspire you then why should you expect to achieve them? — Stephen Richards

They say clothes don't maketh the man, does wearing none get you anywhere in life? — Stephen Richards