John Quotes

Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.

Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

Negative thinking limits God and our potential.

To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.

The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.

Hope is never ill when faith is well.

The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.

It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.

Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.

The time is gonna fly! You better make sure you're the pilot!

But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.

we are unique individuals with unique experiences

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.

At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.

Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

The shirt may be cut slimmer or looser, the suit might be darker or lighter, the sneakers might not have laces, but you're still talking about shirts and suits and sneakers.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."