The 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.
JOHNNY CASHYou build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.
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We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.
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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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I’m not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That’s what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I’ve been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.
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You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
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If you have political convictions. Keep ’em to yourself
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I’m not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I’m thrilled to death with life.
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Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.
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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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I came to believe in a power much higher than I.
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It’s good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.
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The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
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Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.
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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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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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