Top 120 Johnny Cash Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Love Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Kindness Quotes

2. “You 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.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Failure Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Bullying Quotes

3. “Life is rough so you gotta be tough.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Stay Strong Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

4. “There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.”

— Johnny Cash

5. “We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.”

— Johnny Cash

6. “What have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end.”

— Johnny Cash

7. “My arms are too short to box with God.”

— Johnny Cash

8. “As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.”

— Johnny Cash

9. “Because you’re mine, I walk the line.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Love Is Quotes, Valentine's Day Quotes, Quotes About Songs, Falling in Love Quotes

10. “I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Mistake Quotes

11. “Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Quotes About Money, Quotes About the World, Worry Quotes

12. “Life and love go on, let the music play.”

— Johnny Cash

13. “I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Resistance Quotes, Quotes About Giving, Quitting Quotes

14. “When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.”

— Johnny Cash

15. “The more I learn, the more excited I get.”

— Johnny Cash

16. “If you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Christian Quotes

17. “I remember everything. What have I become? My sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end. You could have it all. My empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Hurt Quotes

18. “Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need.”

— Johnny Cash

19. “All music comes from God.”

— Johnny Cash

20. “I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.”

— Johnny Cash

21. “I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time the feelings disappears. What have I become, my sweetest of friends?”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Sadness Quotes

22. “Of travel I’ve had my share, man, I’ve been everywhere.”

— Johnny Cash

23. “Get rhythm when you get the blues.”

— Johnny Cash

24. “Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Fighting Quotes

25. “If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.”

— Johnny Cash

26. “I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you’re mine, I walk the line.”

— Johnny Cash

27. “I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Country Quotes

28. “Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.”

— Johnny Cash

29. “I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.”

— Johnny Cash

30. “The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.”

— Johnny Cash

31. “I don’t like it, but I guess things happen that way.”

— Johnny Cash

32. “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.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Real Quotes

33. “A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Strong Quotes, Sadness Quotes

34. “For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.”

— Johnny Cash

35. “I came to believe in a power much higher than I.”

— Johnny Cash

36. “The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all.”

— Johnny Cash

37. “I knew Bob Dylan was searching for the truth and had been for years. And anyone who Really wants the truth ends up at Jesus.”

— Johnny Cash

38. “When you sing, you pray twice.”

— Johnny Cash

39. “So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don’t let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag ’cause I’m mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag.”

— Johnny Cash

40. “Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.”

— Johnny Cash

41. “How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.”

— Johnny Cash

42. “Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God’s holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Sadness Quotes

43. “Some gal would giggle and I’d get red, and some guy’d laugh and I’d bust his head. I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue.”

— Johnny Cash

44. “I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.”

— Johnny Cash

45. “I’m thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.”

— Johnny Cash

46. “Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Loneliness Quotes

47. “No matter how much you’ve sinned, no matter how much you’ve stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you’ve got from God, don’t give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.”

— Johnny Cash

48. “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.”

— Johnny Cash

49. “Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.”

— Johnny Cash

Featured in: Country Quotes, Breakup Quotes

50. “When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.”

— Johnny Cash