John Quotes

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands and hopes we've learnt something from yesterday.

Had I been chosen president again I am certain I could not have lived another year.

The four most miserable years of my life . . .

Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.

I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by a novel.

More than kisses letters mingle souls.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people.

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

We come to Selma to be renewed. We come to be inspired. We come to be reminded that we must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.

There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.

If I am through learning, I am through.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.

I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He's amazing - obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He's really something.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, ' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is.

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

I believe in forgiveness I believe in trying to work with people.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'

The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.