J. J. Johnson Quotes

The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.

Accept and allow. This is the key to living a life full of Love.

Chance favors the connected mind.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

I think there’s a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water. But we also know what it means to see our children begin to smile again, with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.

The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can't jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Always asked, 'Whats the key to success?' The key is, there is no key. Be humble, hungry and always be the hardest worker in the room.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.

They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

People often remain in the dark, not due to lack of light but of failure to open their eyes.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.

I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.

All of Christian existence ... stands within an expectation. Its fulfillment may be sure, but its timing is unknown.

Beer is an improvement on water itself.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift.

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother

Loneliness is a hell of a drug.

Any solution to a problem changes the problem.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.

If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.