Andy Andrews
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.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Motivational
When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.Collection: Mom
Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.
Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right.Collection: Heart
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.Collection: Adversity
Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.Collection: Life
Much of your success in life is determined by how you choose to act in spite of how you feel.Collection: How You Feel
When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.Collection: Motivational
Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.Collection: Live Life
If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.Collection: Thinking
Beginning today, I will create a new future by creating a new me. No longer will I dwell in a pit of despair, moaning over squandered time and lost opportunity. I can do nothing about the past. My future is immediate. I will grasp it in both hands and carry it with running feet. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act! I seize this moment. I choose now.Collection: Running
When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.Collection: Life
It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.Collection: Destiny
When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.Collection: Emotion
Passion is a product of the heart. Passion is what helps you when you have a great dream. Passion breeds conviction and turns mediocrity into excellence! Your passion will motivate others to join you in pursuit of your dream. With passion, you will overcome insurmountable obstacles. You will become unstoppable!Collection: Dream
Little things do matter. Sometimes, little things matter the most. Everybody pays a lot of attention to big things, but nobody seems to understand that big things are almost always made up of little things. When you ignore little things, they often turn into big things that have become a lot harder to handle.Collection: Attention
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.Collection: Life
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!Collection: Life
There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.Collection: Life
Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.Collection: Life
When you don't know what to do, do something. I know you don't know what to do and I know you can't do everything right now, but you can do something.Collection: Can Do Something
Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.Collection: Imagination
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.Collection: Character
Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.Collection: Differences
Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.Collection: Children
Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.Collection: Challenges
Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.Collection: Adversity
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 mindCollection: Life
A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.Collection: Encouragement
One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.Collection: Life
Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.Collection: Average
Truth is like a wild animal; let it loose and it will defend itself!Collection: Animal
Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.Collection: Differences
Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.Collection: Reset Button
After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.Collection: Grateful
Whatever you focus upon, increases.Collection: Focus
All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.Collection: People
And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.Collection: Successful
For centuries, dreams have been used to communicate instruction and direction to people of purpose - great men and women. God used dreams to prepare Joseph for his future as a leader of nations. He gave battle plans to Gideon in a dream. Joan of Arc, Jacob, George Washington, Marie Curie, and the apostle Paul were all guided by their dreams.Collection: Motivational
WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.Collection: Thinking
It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Book
We are all in situations of our own choosing. 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.Collection: Motivational
Anytime God wanted to reach people he always used people to do it. So, anytime the Holy Spirit wants to reach other people, it is always through people.Collection: People
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.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Rocks
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.Collection: Thinking
Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.Collection: Teacher