J.P. Martin Quotes

When I play stuff for my wife she'll be like, "No, not that song. No way."

It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.

It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative to a middle class woman who works.

I'm a primate, you know? I need to be pro-social, like all of us; I need to be pro-social and affiliative. I need to sit at the campfire with other women.

We can all get more together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power. Power is the ability to achieve purpose, power is the ability to effect change, and we need power.

Nothing worthwhile is gained without sacrifice.

All labor has dignity.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

the time is always right to do the right thing

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Be a sinner and sin boldly,  but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

If you are someone who dislikes, condemns and rejects new ideas, you aren’t fit to lead.

You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.

You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.

Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.

You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.

Do what you can with all love and passion irrespective of whether it pays you well or not. Joy in the result lives longer than the joy in the reward.

The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.

Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light.

Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you.

Sometimes, people don’t need our monies and our treasures. All they need is our encouragements to give them hope.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.

Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.

Most of the people who attempt to draw back the success of the world are those who don’t care about anything. They live life every day without asking why.

At the end of it all, it is our relationship with people that will determine whether they will share in our pain if we fall into dangers.

A leader’s goal is to remain relevant even when time changes.

The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style. Reinvent yourself always: You must create a new you

The change the world needs is not in the hand of everyone who is alive. It is in the works of those who deliberately contribute to make it a better place.

Watch out success will only arrive when your action are strong enough to attract them.

The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.

Never take tiny dreams for granted. They contain giant success stories.

The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.

Keep to active learning. You must learn, research and be so passionate about new ways and methods of doing things to be and remain relevant.

I suggest to you, late or not late, the moment you have discovered that the mission of someone is to pee on your dreams, keep him away or keep away from him.

You can’t work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won’t get the optimum of what you would have obtained when you work with people you love.

The essence of adversity is to show us the real brave people who can withstand it.

Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.

Remember, one step leads to the other and therefore never neglect the first step. It will give you the confidence you need to sail through with victory

I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.

People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that’s the job of vision.

One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly.

Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.

Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.