The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
There are three things that are important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then. - John Templeton
Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church. - John Templeton
Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the outlook is tremendously bullish if you buy stocks blindly to keep for a century. - John Templeton
For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes. - John Templeton
Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at. - John Templeton
If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs. - John Templeton
Let’s worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension. - John Templeton
Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help; he would refer you to the Bible. But if you went the next day to your medical doctor and he referred you to the book of Hippocrates, which was written at about the same time as the Bible, you would think that was old-fashioned. - John Templeton
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It’s self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. - John Templeton
The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’ - John Templeton
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