John Smith Quotes

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

He who does not work, will not eat

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!

The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.

Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.

The Best way to help the world is to help someone!

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.

The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.

Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

The settled will of the Scottish people.

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.

That which enables us to know and understand aright in the things of God, must be a living principle of holiness within us.