J.E. Johnson Quotes

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.

If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

Skills can be taught. It's tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common.

You've got to be ready for everything. When it comes to everyone's opinion, that's what you've got to go through.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.

From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.

Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.

It's important that women support women. It gives me a great sense of well-being to know that I can make a difference in people's lives.

Pretend like it's the weekend, ... We could pretend it all the time.

The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we're losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too hard. Success comes from fun.

I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence.

Painting is so much more than the materials.

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.

I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.

Telling me that I can't do something is probably the worst thing that anyone can say, because I'll definitely do it. I'm very determined.

I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Grief is a species of idleness.

Failure is a word I don't accept.

There will never come a time when you don't have to practice

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

We owe the world an encounter with God

If you do not change, you can become extinct !

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.