Top 30 John Bytheway Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, life’s hard.”

— John Bytheway

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2. “A man with experience is never at the mercy of a man with an opinion.”

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3. “Go and do, don’t sit and stew.”

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4. “Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It’s mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.”

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5. “Some people will dream big dreams while others will wake up and do them.”

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6. “The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.”

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7. “One way we could describe the struggle of life would be to say it is a battle between agency and addiction. Agency is our power to choose, and addiction is what happens when we have lost that power and we are controlled by something else.”

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8. “It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.”

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9. “The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?”

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10. “Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.”

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11. “Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!”

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12. “Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.”

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13. “If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.”

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14. “Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.”

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15. “I think some of the most attractive traits a person can have are a happy disposition, a good dose of appropriate self-confidence, and a sense of purpose.”

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16. “The Lord didn’t make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.”

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17. “We don’t LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they are.”

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18. “Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone’s shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.”

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19. “We’re not thinking straight if we say we want to be like Jesus but we don’t want to go through anything Jesus went through!”

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20. “It’s important to marry someone you love, but it’s also important to marry someone you like. In other words, you like being together, you like to do the same things, you like each other. You’re friends! Romance may have ups and downs, but friendship endures.”

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21. “Isaiah taught me that the Lord is very persistent with his people.”

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22. “Oh, seriously – how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!”

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23. “When people point fingers at someone else, they should remember that three fingers are pointing back at them.”

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24. “Say no to parking lots!”

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25. “Righteousness brings happiness. Wickedness never does. If there were no God, no plan, no law, and no divine order, there would be no reason wickedness would not bring happiness. But it never does. The history of civilization is a testament that hedonism, perversion, brutality, corruption, and wickedness sow seeds of misery, sorrow, and destruction. It is not a quirk of evolution. It is evidence of a divinely appointed plan.12.”

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26. “What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!”

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27. “Making weak things strong is the Savior’s specialty, and the way we receive such individual help is through humility and a willingness to come unto Christ.”

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28. “While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet.”4.”

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29. “The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you’re young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.”

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30. “Someone with whom you can spend the whole day and never feel bored or lonely. Someone who is the first person you want to tell when something exciting happens to you. Someone you really like.”

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31. “I suppose that one of the greatest benefits of studying Isaiah is the process of studying Isaiah. Searching the scriptures puts you in a pondering, searching frame of mind in which inspiration can come, allowing you to find ways to apply scriptural truths to your life.”

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32. “Aside from the giddy high school feelings, real love makes you: Feel a desire to achieve Feel inspired to do your best Want to make the most of yourself Think your noblest thoughts Aspire to your finest deeds Wish you were better than you are.”

— John Bytheway