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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden 
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
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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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
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
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)
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
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
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
Every increased possession
loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
Imagine...
- John Lennon
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
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
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
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
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
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
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- 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
Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
- John Lennon
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- 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
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
- John Lennon
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- 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
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
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
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