John Quotes

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word.

I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

Apply yourself everyday to just becoming a little bit better.

It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying

It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.

Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.

I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.

Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.

The athlete who says that something can't be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it

Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.

Listen if you want to be heard

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.

Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top

If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.

What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

We are many, but are we much?

Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.

Drink deeply from good books.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

Never lie, never cheat, never steal.

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.

If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.