P. G. Johnson Quotes

One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

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

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

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.

We can never untangle all the woes in other people's lives. We can't produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.

I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

Once you believe in who you are and who you were born to be, it can be very powerful.

I'm asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it's probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions.

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

What is the will of God? On earth as it is in heaven. If it doesn’t exist there, it’s not supposed to exist here. If it does exist there, it’s supposed to exist here.

I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

I love that I'm alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don't like solitude.

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.

Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.

The future of architecture is culture.

The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.