Jo Jones Quotes

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

Tell someone you love them and mean it.

I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.

We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads

I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.

If life ever ceased to be an educational experience. I probably wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice - it's pure and simple.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.

When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.

The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it

It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.

Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.

The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.

The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

The greatest ability is dependability.

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

I just thank God I'm still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it'll be easier to be received elsewhere.

To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!

If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

When you get a range expansion, the market is sending you a very loud, clear signal that the market is getting ready to move in the direction of that expansion.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!

I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.

If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.