J. L. B. Smith Quotes

Love isn't love until you give it away.

Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.

Don't dress for fashion, dress for yourself

It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.

Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.

All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.

When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'

Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

Government is waging war against the people.

You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Nothing in the world glorifies God so much as simple rest of faith in what God’s Word says.

You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.

We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger.

There is no cure for the ills of the world except the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

The Meatbats are a throwback band.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

I don't think Mercedes-Benz says anything about me, really. I was in a situation where I was able to get a really nice car and I'm proud to have it.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

Pentecost came with the sound of a mighty rushing wind, a violent blast from heaven! Heaven has not exhausted its blasts, but our danger is we are getting frightened of them.

The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

You have haters from all walks of life. I could care less who wants me to fail. They inspire me.

You can be a pharaoh. Like, a pharaoh means, that which you will become.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

You have to bring your mind to the Word of God and not try to bring the Word of God to your mind.