John Quotes
The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.
Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.
Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.
A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.
Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.
Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.
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The only countries that are outside of [ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] are Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea withdrew in the last few years.
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.
Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.
"Now you can trade the S&P 500 Index in real time" was the slogan in the newspapers for the first ETF. What kind of nut would do that?
I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.
When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?
You just have to be opportunistic, and try to figure out what creates value.. where the bottom is, what creates incremental value, and in what combinations.
Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.
You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.
People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.
Our attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its outcome more than anything else.
It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.
We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.
A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.
When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.
Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.
One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.
You give up a lot to be in politics. And if you're not there to change the world I don't know what you're there for. I mean, it doesn't make any sense to me.
