Andy Andrews
We think in our society today that the way people change is that they have to have a deep desire to change or that the way they change is they have to hit rock bottom. But neither of those things is true.Collection: Thinking
You have been created with the ability to change the world. Every single choice you make ... every single action you take ... matters. But remember, the converse is also true. Every choice you do not make ... every action you do not take ... matters just as much.Collection: Choices
I just think it’s amazing that a person could lose everything, chasing nothing.Collection: Thinking
Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?Collection: Life
To be great at whatever it is that you do, it's going to take some discipline to separate yourself from the average.Collection: Average
While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.Collection: Public Opinion
I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice. Today, I choose to persist without exception. No longer will I live in a dimension of distraction, my focus blown hither and yon like a leaf on a blustery day. I know the outcome I desire. I hold fast to my dreams. I stay the course. I do not quit.Collection: Dream
You have chosen the pathway to your present destination. The responsibility for your situation is yours.Collection: Responsibility
Even in the worst time of life, if you are still breathing, that means you are still alive. If you are still here, you haven't accomplished what is still to be accomplished. The most important part of your life is still ahead of you.Collection: Mean
It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.Collection: Easy
Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. 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: Motivational
People who are labeled as disrespectful do not get the same opportunities afforded to those who are labeled as respectful.Collection: Opportunity
I guarantee you there is someone in your life that deserves more appreciation. Who is it? Find that person and let them know!Collection: Appreciation
Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.Collection: Motivational
Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.Collection: Dream
Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.Collection: Successful
It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.Collection: Motivational
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!Collection: Believe
A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.Collection: Grateful
The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.Collection: Motivational
I start every day making sure I'm where I need to be and thinking like I need to think.Collection: Thinking
When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.Collection: Life
See, the ‘small stuff’ is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is distorted. They ignore ‘small stuff,’ claiming to have an eye on the bigger picture, never understanding that the bigger picture is composed of nothing more than-are you ready?- ‘small stuff’.Collection: Life
Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.Collection: Life
I always want to teach things that help people with their personal lives, their financial lives and their legacies, so this was a huge thing for me.Collection: People
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.Collection: School
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.Collection: People
What I'm doing when I'm doing my speaking engagements is that I'm delivering serious material with humor. So, instead of delivering humor without a particular point other than to entertain people, I'm delivering comedy in a serious way.Collection: People
I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Christian
People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier.Collection: Book
I'm not saying don't do the work you got, but instead of this two hours of watching TV at the hotel lobby or this three hours of sitting under the pier and reading comic books or worrying about what you're doing ... what value do you have? Can you read? There are people out there who can't read - go read to them.Collection: Book
When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.Collection: Principles
Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people’s experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.Collection: Reading
It’s a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.Collection: Stories
It’s also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!Collection: Stories