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May you find great value in these John quotes and sayings.
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
Every increased possession
loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
- John Lennon
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
I'm an idealist without illusions.
- John F. Kennedy
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
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