John Quotes

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself he is as a wave of the sea or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.

Our toil is sweet with thankfulness Our burden is our boon The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

A torch-light procession marching down your throat.

He neither drank smoked nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally saving his money he died early surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me.

Drink today and drown all sorrow You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep still thank Him that you live to lie awake.

Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.

All men are liable to error and most men are ... by passion or interest under temptation to it.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

You can beat the Bear once but never the same way twice.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.

Most people don't plan to fail they fail to plan.

Your faith is what you believe not what you know.

Faith consists not in ignorance but in knowledge and that not only of God but also of the divine will.

It is as absurd to argue men as to torture them into believing.

Reason's voice and God's Nature's and Duty's never are at odds.

Faith is the result of the act of the will following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

We cannot hand our faith to one another. ... Even in the Middle Ages when faith was theoretically uniform it was always practically individual.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking Knowing God's own time is best In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!

Tis the most tender part of love each other to forgive.

The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.

I am he As you are me And we are all together.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.

Where no hope is left is left no fear.

Fear if allowed free rein would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men for whom only death could bring release.

The craven's fear is but selfishness like his merriment.

Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves But never for us so hearty.

There can no great smoke arise but there must be some fire.

AH the fat's in the fire.

She is neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot.

"Shoot if you must this old gray head But spare your country's flag " she said.

Flowers of all hue and without thorn the rose.

In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row That mark our place and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

Every inch that is not fool is rogue.

Forgiveness is the most tender part of love.

Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.

Considering the fortune you might have lost you'll have to admit you're rich already.