John Quotes

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

You add value to people when you value them.

In the centre of the cyclone one is off the wheel of Karma, of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe, the Creators of us. Here we find that we have created Them who are Us.

The miracle is that the universe created a part of itself, to study itself,
and that this part in studying itself finds the rest of the universe in its own natural inner realities.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

I will not make anymore boring art.

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

You wanna do some livin' before you die. Do it down in New Orleans.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

Beginnings are always messy.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Justice delayed is democracy denied.

The joy of dressing is an art.

The Gospel acts without threats... it teaches us about the supreme goodwill of God towards us.

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

Science is the discovery of how God does things.

Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes Only two things that money can't buy That's true love and home grown tomatoes.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

Everything needs to touch your heart. Everything that touches your heart brings out the deep in you.

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock.

It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.