John Quotes

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.

Those closest to me will determine the level of my success.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.

Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.

Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

A trustworthy leader goes the extra mile to remedy strained relationships, even when it doesn't appear to be required.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

Our challenge is to think right in a wrong world. Our challenge is to think positive in a negative world.

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.

We could live offa the fatta the lan'.

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.

The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.