John Quotes

Out here a man settles his own problems.

Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.

I drink for comradeship, and when I drink for comradeship, I don't bother to keep count.

I'm the stuff men are made of!

I never killed a man I didn't have to.

Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.

I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I've been doing okay, haven't I?

General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

Love is the recognition of beauty.

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.

Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.

At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.

When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.

The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet.

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

Late children are early orphans.

The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.

When I was young, I loved movies so much I wanted to make one.

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

Do your best every day. Live each day as if it's your masterpiece.

The best competition I have is against myself to become better

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it.

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.

People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.

Love is the most powerful four letter word.

Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.

I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip.

You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

You are no better than anyone else and no one is better than you.

Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.