A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
JOHNNY CASHThe things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
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Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.
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It’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people.
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When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
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Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
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Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.
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If you have political convictions. Keep ’em to yourself
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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
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There’s a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there’s a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.
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You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.
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When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.
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All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.
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It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.
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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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