J. J. Johnson Quotes
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.
There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.
How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
If there was a simple formula for success and it was easy to follow, everyone would be doing it.
We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience
I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved
Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
Acknowledging and accepting whatever stuff you may have to let go comes easier when you love yourself.
Be who you want to be, do what it takes to be that way, and in time, you will have what you want in life.