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Top 25 John Smith Quotes (2025 Update)

John Smith Quote: “Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.”

1. “Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.”

John Smith Quote: “He who does not work, will not eat.”

2. “He who does not work, will not eat.”

John Smith Quote: “The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.”

3. “The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.”

John Smith Quote: “The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.”

4. “The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.”

John Smith Quote: “As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.”

5. “As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.”

John Smith Quote: “Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.”

6. “Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.”

John Smith Quote: “History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.”

7. “History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.”

John Smith Quote: “The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.”

8. “The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.”

John Smith Quote: “The opportunity to serve our country – that is all we ask.”

9. “The opportunity to serve our country – that is all we ask.”

John Smith Quote: “But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy...”

10. “But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy...”

John Smith Quote: “The Best way to help the world is to help someone!”

11. “The Best way to help the world is to help someone!”

John Smith Quote: “Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.”

12. “Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.”

John Smith Quote: “With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world.”

13. “With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world.”

John Smith Quote: “Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints...”

14. “Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints...”

John Smith Quote: “There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.”

15. “There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.”

John Smith Quote: “Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.”

16. “Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.”

John Smith Quote: “Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.”

17. “Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.”

John Smith Quote: “The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don’t want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.”

18. “The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don’t want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.”

John Smith Quote: “Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.”

19. “Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.”

John Smith Quote: “How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.”

20. “How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.”

John Smith Quote: “The settled will of the Scottish people.”

21. “The settled will of the Scottish people.”

John Smith Quote: “30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press’d to it by compulsion.”

22. “30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press’d to it by compulsion.”

John Smith Quote: “I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.”

23. “I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.”

John Smith Quote: “Lonely people have cruel thoughts.”

24. “Lonely people have cruel thoughts.”

John Smith Quote: “They took him inside, where it was warm, and then they fed him, taking care to follow every detail of the instructions they had received from the Army, into an enormous machine.”

25. “They took him inside, where it was warm, and then they fed him, taking care to follow every detail of the instructions they had received from the Army, into an enormous machine.”

John Smith Quote: “To be – what? What to be? That is the question.”

26. “To be – what? What to be? That is the question.”

John Smith Quote: “Nay, so great was our famine that a Salvage we slew and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and eat him; and so did divers one another, boyled and stewed with roots and herbs. And one amongst the rest did kill his wife, powdered her, and had eaten part of her, before it was knowne, for which hee was executed, as hee well deserved. Now whether shee was better roasted, boyled, or carbonado’d I know not, but of such a dish as powdered wife I never heard of.”

27. “Nay, so great was our famine that a Salvage we slew and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and eat him; and so did divers one another, boyled and stewed with roots and herbs. And one amongst the rest did kill his wife, powdered her, and had eaten part of her, before it was knowne, for which hee was executed, as hee well deserved. Now whether shee was better roasted, boyled, or carbonado’d I know not, but of such a dish as powdered wife I never heard of.”

John Smith Quote: “To clench one’s teeth, to be realistic, but not to compromise, to press on, in spite of the absolute weariness of the million inevitable failures of any great task – that is discipline.”

28. “To clench one’s teeth, to be realistic, but not to compromise, to press on, in spite of the absolute weariness of the million inevitable failures of any great task – that is discipline.”

John Smith Quote: “All the time he had spent in institutions, sheltered from the world, when in reality there was no greater threat to him than the institutions themselves.”

29. “All the time he had spent in institutions, sheltered from the world, when in reality there was no greater threat to him than the institutions themselves.”

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