John Quotes

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus.

Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.

Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.

The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake.

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

I've got the drinkers and the smokers and the eaters on my side.

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

Bruno: "Why do you wear pajamas all day?" Shmuel: "The soldiers. They took all our clothes away." Bruno: "My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away."

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.

The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.