J Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with J. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Just like everything else in our lives, with the good comes the bad. It applies to success as well. Success isn't a destination, it's a journey - a journey that will be sure to come with lots of great achievements and lots of setbacks. You have the power to decide if those downsides are going to define you in a negative way or a positive way.”
“Just like everything, even the most fun and creative endeavor requires work to be successful, and I'm so sick of working. I'm a lazy person at heart. I never meant to be a go-getter.”
“Just like explorers keep digging for treasures, keep investing in your dreams while on earth.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities.”
“Just like forever isn’t for everyone. No point rushing for a bandwagon I can’t catch.”
Source: Adventures of the Restless Youth: The Stendhal Syndrome
“Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for — because one without the other would be hell.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Just like girls need to learn to be comfortable in heels before they go out in them for the first time, a man should try wearing a suit throughout a normal day. I do most things in a suit-and sometimes even in a tuxedo-and so I'm really comfortable in one.”
“Just like happiness is a conscious choice, sufferings is also an unconscious choice. Our intention is to eliminate that unconscious choice from the society.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Just like he left the world for me, he left me for the world.”
Source: White Horses Dark Shadows: A Modern Day Intense Romance | A story about finding True Love
“Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.”
Source: Of Mice and Men
“Just like how a tree remains a tree even if the seasons change, just like how the river stays a river despite its incessant flow, people will come and go and you will still be you.”
Source: Being Comfortable Without Effort
“Just like how countless stars did,
always in the same spot
you will shine brightly on your own.”
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“Just like how we choose our thoughts, how we choose to move our bodies matters.”
Source: Reclaim the Rebel: 12 Rebellious Acts to Achieve Unconditional Love for Your Body
“Just like hunger, thirst and pain, jealousy feels “bad” in order to motivate you to take action to feel “good”. Turn jealousy into motivation right now by asking for what you need or enthusiastically taking the first step to achieve your goal.”
Source: Jealousy is the Moon
“Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.”
“Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it's nature, whether it's sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me.”
“Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.”
“Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.”
“Just like I said to Bill Clinton years ago: "drop the pan and plug in some porn, babe!" And then he hung up!”
Source: Quotes and Thoughts
“Just like I will decide my life. No more waiting for other people to decide things for me. I'm writing it right now.”
Source: Breathless
“Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone
I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop my favorite play is the alley-oop
I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go
Cause it's basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow.”
“Just like ice cream narcissists come in all flavors and no two are the same. It may be easy for you to recognize the flavor you had, but perhaps a covert would slip by. What flavor was your narcissist?”
“Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.”
Source: Middlesex
“Just like if you go through life with a complete yes, death also leads you to higher frequency.”
“Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.”
“Just like in any other movie, too, we've had car troubles. We've had issues with weather. We've had issues with you name it. You can't predict this tough but as long as you go at it with the mindset that it doesn't matter what happens, we'll just figure out a way around it - that's the reason that I'm here.”
“Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?”
“Just like in boxing, fate gives you the same blow. Don't let fate repeat itself.”
“Just like in Christianity or Buddhism, obviously there are certain practices that dictate one's life, but I don't think you can say all Muslim women are a certain way.”
“Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.”
“Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a squared jaw or pretty woman with big breasts, then kids start thinking that's how it's supposed to be. Part of the problem was that black comic book artists were making super heroes with the same pattern as the white super heroes. When you read a lot of those comics, the black super heroes don't seem to have anything to do.”
“Just like in the eye of the storm there is always comfort within the chaos. Becoming aware of this however, is your responsibility.”
“Just like individual people, each animal is unique and endowed with different gifts, and some are more spiritually proficient than others. Some are young souls with limited understanding of their mission and purpose, while others have learned spiritual mastery through many lifetimes of experience. All, however, can help us develop fluency in the heart-based language of telepathy.”
Source: Swift and Brave: Sacred Souls of Animals
“Just like it is in the life of an individual or an organization, one of the catalysts of progress is discipline and order.”
“Just like it is so important to understand the difference in thinking and feeling to increase our Emotional Intelligence, it is important to take the time to understand the difference in emotional feelings and gut feelings to further increase our intelligence and facility of intuition that we call Intuitional Intelligence.”
Source: Increasing Intuitional Intelligence: How the Awareness of Instinctual Gut Feelings Fosters Human Learning, Intuition, and Longevity
“Just like Jesus only did what he saw the Father do, so can you.”
Source: Behold: Experience a Lifestyle of Intimacy With Your Creator.
“Just like keeping a healthy diet is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, eating the right foods is just as important for getting the most out of your workout.”
“Just like life, it was only the contrast with darkness that had made it seem brighter.”
Source: Reddrops
“Just like life, it was over much too soon. And just like life, there weren't any answers. But like that one-in-an-eight-million great New York moment, I didn't need one. (Dark City Lights)”
“Just like life, reality shifted and twisted out of her grasp [Elena's view on Gran Sasso]”
Source: Split Symmetry
“Just like literature, wine takes time to learn. Before having access to the emotion of a stunning poem or to the vigor of a captivating novel, we all had to go through a long initiation. First, we need to learn the alphabet, the sound of each letter. In wine, that would be learning about the grapes and their characteristics. Then, once we master our letters, we need to learn the arrangements of letters, the pronunciation, the grammar, the structure of sentences. Now we can read. In wine, that would be the stage when we start noticing differences between two reds. You no longer drink wine: you start drinking this wine.”
“Just like Marilyn Monroe is a lot of girls' idol, that's how I feel about Dorothy Dandridge. And she any Marilyn were very close friends. She went through a lot, and people told her that she couldn't do certain things, but she didn't let that bother her. She said in her mind that she was going to do them and that nothing was impossible, and she did it. It was so sad... She died from drugs, and drinking as well.”
“Just like men, perfume is never perfect right away; you have to let it seduce you.”
“Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.”
“Just like music evokes emotion, so can garments.”
“Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.”
“Just like my career, I've sung the same songs night after night in so many ways. It's always different because every space is different. I lost my mojo once. It was like Austin Powers. I don't know why or how, but I had to get it back. And I did.”
“Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.”
“Just like my peers in school who didn’t understand my Polish culture, my family did not understand my American identity. I was always “too Polish” in my friend group and “too American” in my family. I couldn’t win, further isolating me into a grief I didn’t yet understand.”