John Quotes

We must be challenged to improve, and adversity is the challenger.

Class is an intangible quality which commands, rather than demands, the respect of others.

In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.

You can always do more than you think you can.

Everything we know, we learned from someone else!

Hustle makes up for many a mistake.

Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.

Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.

Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.

You can respect a person without necessarily liking that individual.

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

Respect a man, and he will do all the more.

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.

I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.

Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

Reverse the ball one time for a good shot, two times for a great shot, three times for a layup.

Make friendship a fine art.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.

In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary.

Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.

We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.

Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.

Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.

The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.

Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

To reach peace, teach peace.

...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where?

Justice comes before charity.