Top 70 Jack Johnson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t let your dreams be dreams.”

— Jack Johnson

2. “Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way.”

— Jack Johnson

3. “We’ve got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.”

— Jack Johnson

4. “Slow down, everyone. You’re moving too fast.”

— Jack Johnson

5. “I can change the world with my own two hands.”

— Jack Johnson

6. “But you’re so busy changing the world Just one smile can change all of mine.”

— Jack Johnson

7. “We’re all related. We’re all a family.”

— Jack Johnson

8. “You better hope you’re not alone.”

— Jack Johnson

9. “The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.”

— Jack Johnson

10. “It’s always better when we’re together, somewhere in between together.”

— Jack Johnson

11. “Home is wherever we are if there’s love here too.”

— Jack Johnson

12. “Plato’s cave is full of freaks.”

— Jack Johnson

13. “Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take. When you find the things that you love the most and you want to give those away, that’s love. It’s when you want somebody to be happier than yourself, but then once you make them happy, it makes you happier.”

— Jack Johnson

14. “I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.”

— Jack Johnson

15. “When you move like a jellyfish, rhythm is nothing. You go with the flow. You don’t stop.”

— Jack Johnson

16. “We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.”

— Jack Johnson

17. “Supporting local food production is so much healthier for people. It’s better for the local economy, and it’s a lot of fun.”

— Jack Johnson

18. “There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven...”

— Jack Johnson

19. “Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing – feinting.”

— Jack Johnson

20. “Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.”

— Jack Johnson

21. “I want to turn the whole thing upside down I’ll find the things they say just can’t be found I’ll share the love I find with everyone We’ll sing and dance to Mother Nature’s song I don’t want this feeling to go away.”

— Jack Johnson

22. “You and your heart shouldn’t feel so far apart.”

— Jack Johnson

23. “What about your mind, does it shine?”

— Jack Johnson

24. “The wisdom’s in the trees not the glass windows.”

— Jack Johnson

25. “Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go And how come it’s so hard.”

— Jack Johnson

26. “Can’t you see that it’s just raining? There ain’t no need to go outside.”

— Jack Johnson

27. “Found my foundation it was underneath me all along. On this path I’m on I never walk alone.”

— Jack Johnson

28. “The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.”

— Jack Johnson

29. “Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.”

— Jack Johnson

30. “Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.”

— Jack Johnson

31. “If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.”

— Jack Johnson

32. “I get nervous when I fly; I’m used to walking with my feet.”

— Jack Johnson

33. “Plexi, plexi, bend don’t shatter. Once you’re broken, shape won’t matter.”

— Jack Johnson

34. “People don’t know anything about themselves because they’re all worried about everybody else.”

— Jack Johnson

35. “To be part of a community feels really good – to be among people who have similar feelings and want to share thoughts. It’s a nice feeling.”

— Jack Johnson

36. “She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she’s just a part of the herd.”

— Jack Johnson

37. “Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that’s a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is ending up in the ocean. Basically, the Hawaiian Islands act as a filter out in the middle of the Pacific.”

— Jack Johnson

38. “Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.”

— Jack Johnson

39. “My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.”

— Jack Johnson

40. “We’ve all got the blood on our hands, we only receive what we demand.”

— Jack Johnson

41. “Every time I get a chance to be out in the ocean, it’s like hitting a reset button for me where I just feel alive again, in perfect balance. Music can give me that, as well, but not as easily. The ocean is the way I know how to find it almost daily.”

— Jack Johnson

42. “People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.”

— Jack Johnson

43. “Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.”

— Jack Johnson

44. “The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.”

— Jack Johnson

45. “I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs.”

— Jack Johnson

46. “I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.”

— Jack Johnson

47. “Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect...”

— Jack Johnson

48. “Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.”

— Jack Johnson

49. “All caught up in the trends, well the truth began to bend.”

— Jack Johnson

50. “He gets his courage from the can, it makes him feel like a man.”

— Jack Johnson