J. Boone Quotes

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.

Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

Christmas is a good time to take stock of our blessings.

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!

Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

I'm going now. My time has come.

So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.

I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

The Christmas spirit - love - changes hearts and lives.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

Fundamentals make the market.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.