John Spence Quotes

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• If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, World

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• At the end of the day - the long day of your life - as people stand around your grave no one will talk about how big your house was, or how many cars you owned, or your boat or plane... they will only talk about ONE thing and ONE thing ONLY: LOVE! How much you loved them and how much they loved you. So the goal then is to live a life of love. That is all.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Goal, Car

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• Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, Appreciate

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• No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Fighting, Thinking

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• When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, People

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• When values are clear, decisions are easy.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Decision, Easy

  John Spence (2014). “Letters to a CEO”, p.110, Diversion Books

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• While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, Imperfect Person

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• Someone else doesn't have to be wrong for you to be right.

  John Spence

  Thinking

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• Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem... You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Problem, Realizing

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• Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, Upset

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• Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.

  John Spence

  Love You, Thinking, Ideas

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• When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, Live Your Life

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• Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.

  John Spence

  Being Yourself, Life Changing, Thinking

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• Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Looks, Faces

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• Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

  John Spence

  Encouraging, Uplifting, Life Changing

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• In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

  John Spence

  Strong Women, Hippie, Thinking

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• Making one person smile can change the world - maybe not the whole world, but their world.

  John Spence

  Thinking, World, Persons

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• Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you.

  John Spence

  Love You, Thinking, Special

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• You cannot change what you refuse to confront.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Refuse

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• If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.

  John Spence

  Heart, Thinking, Space

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• Don't think of cost. Think of value.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, Creating Value

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• My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Self, Definitions

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• You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, Want

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• People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them.

  John Spence

  Thinking, People, Easy

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• Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, People

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