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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy 
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
The more we know about how we lost
our spontaneous wonder and creativity,
the more we can find ways to get them back.
- John Bradshaw
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs
Every increased possession
loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Imagine...
- John Lennon
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
I'm an idealist without illusions.
- John F. Kennedy
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw
Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
- John Lennon
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.
You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard
or just think it's going to get on by itself.
You've got to keep watering it.
You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
- John Lennon
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
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