John Quotes

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.

You must do right before you feel good.

If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.

I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us that we need to manage every day.

If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.

A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap, forget motivation, just do it

You can be a model to the masses, but to go to the higher levels of influence, you have to work with individuals.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.

Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.

Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

Don't make everyone know about your sadness.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.

They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection.

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.