John Quotes

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.

He is a self-made man and worships his creator.

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do something.

If you want to succeed you must make your own opportunities as you go.

Servant of God well done.

Shadows are in reality when the sun is shining the most conspicuous thing in a landscape next to the highest lights.

Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty.

Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

So many laws argue so many sins.

Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity.

The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun.

Here on earth God's work must surely be our own.

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.

You are in some brown study.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve the mastery ... faith is the stronger emotion because it is positive whereas fear is negative.

No matter how much a man can do no matter how engaging his personality may be he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

But far more numerous was the herd of stfch Who think too little and who talk too much.

Every man as he loveth quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

Of all the dramatic media radio is the most visual.

Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt nor his wife a widow.

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.

The future is hope!

Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time but a filling of time with God.

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash in hand. Spend It!

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear but grateful take the good I find the best of now and here.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

A poor woman from Manchester on being taken to the seaside is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

The thoughts that come often unsought and as it were drop into the mind are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

A penny for your thought.

A glass is good and a lass is good And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.

Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own: He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst for I have liv'd today.

All travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

What the heart gives away is never gone.... It is kept in the hearts of others.

For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.

It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.

Then join in hand brave Americans all! By uniting we stand by dividing we fall.

He who hates vice hates men.

Many without punishment none without sin.

I'll habits gather by unseen degrees As brooks make rivers rivers run to seas.

He talks at the drop of a pause.