John Quotes

You cannot be too active as regards your own efforts; you cannot be too dependent as regards Divine grace. Do every thing as if God did nothing; depend upon God as if He did everything.

The Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, devotes 20,000 words to the person of Jesus Christ and never once hints that He didn't exist.

Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

I think heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves or somebody else.

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

On stage is the only place where I really know what I'm doing.

I've never been much given to little social cliques.

Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.

That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.

I am a runner because I run. Not because I run fast. Not because I run far. I am a runner because I say I am. And no one can tell me I'm not.

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

You can't heal what you can't feel!

General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?

It is too late, now I wish I could live.

At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.

Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.

Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate.

The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

Leading well is not about enriching yourself - it's about empowering others

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

An idea is worthless unless you use it.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

The person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.

Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.

The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.

People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!

Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.

It's one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say. It's another to communicate with people because you believe they have value.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

It's not about celebrity or not. It's all about, do you have that 'girl in a cardigan' in you. You gotta have that.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

I just want it to be timeless and timely at the same time.

We should care about what is going on in the world.

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.

I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?

A working class hero is something to be.

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment."

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.