J.D. Young Quotes

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

You must not you worry about leaks or pieces [stolen] on your computer. You just make songs, you gotta make music, keep stuff out. You may not know rap, but that's how it works.

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

I do not always listen again but if something strikes me, I exploit it.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors. Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age.

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

There's more to a picture than meets the eye.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

I've always been better moving than I am standing still.

I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.

I enjoyed playing around with Paulie in the Rocky films, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.

He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

Every time you try to encourage someone else, your own soul will be flooded with a light and glow of peace and good cheer.

A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility.

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.

Suffering = Pain x Resistance

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

Stretch your mind and fly.

People don't buy plastic and paper, they buy emotions.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

If in doubt, paddle out.

It takes vision and courage to create

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.