Famous Quotes

Quotes by John Woo

• About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.
• Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
• Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
• Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
• Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
• Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
• I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
• I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.
• I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
• I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
• I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
• I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
• I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
• I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
• I'm glad I was a teacher.
• I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
• If I am through learning, I am through.
• If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
• If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
• If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
• Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
• Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.
• Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
• My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
• My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
• My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
• No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
• Passion is momentary love is enduring.
• Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
• Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
• Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
• Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.