Quotes from Andy Andrews

Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

I guarantee you there is someone in your life that deserves more appreciation. Who is it? Find that person and let them know!

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

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.