E.W. Jackson Quotes

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.

Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.

I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.

Well, back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade - that's all that we knew.

[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.

I disagree that our border is in devastating condition.

I really do wish people could understand me some day.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.

I love funny women, and just being around them talking is fine with me. I love an interesting mind.

I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

We need Peace, We need Giving, We need Love, We need Unity.

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading, because I know where I've been.

Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas.

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.

I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Love is friendship set to music.

Being broke is against my religion.

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

I delight in what I fear.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Don't put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.

Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.

The color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.

I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make a wish come true, I really do. And a wish is more than a wish.. it's a goal that your conscience and subconscience can help make reality.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Insult me all you want. Judge me as much as you want. Say what you think, everything you want. But one thing. Dont touch my fans.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.