J.L. Hunt Quotes

Every man is a hero or oracle to someone. And that person has enhanced value.

When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward...I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt.

The platform God has given me is the platform of exhortation.

We can influence people for bad or good.

God uses us to impact others.

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.

We just planted our 21st church.

Influencers influence people and the people who they influence.

Influencers connect with others before they take them anywhere.

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.

Granddaddy can pick up a phone and call anyone in the world and they will take his call. But he doesn't know it.

Forgiveness is just such a big deal.

Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.

You can be genuinely forgiven by God and other people but still suffer the consequences from a particular sin in your life.

If you are godly it has been because you have been made godly.

Integrity gives. It is not a taker.

The word "influence" means the power to change or affect someone.

Consumers do not view communications in isolation. They bring with them all their past brand experiences and associations.

I remember us coming to Denver when Hank was coach and we were up by four touchdowns just before halftime when Hank decided to go for an onside kick.

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

Improvement is nature.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.

A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!