Top 53 Quotes & Sayings by John Spence

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician John Spence.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
John Spence

No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California, formed in 1986. For most of their career, the band consisted of vocalist Gwen Stefani, guitarist Tom Dumont, bassist Tony Kanal, and drummer Adrian Young. Since the mid-1990s, they were supported by trombonist and keyboardist Gabrial McNair and trumpeter and keyboardist Stephen Bradley in live performances.

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.
Vision = Focus / Focus = Attention / Attention = Action /Action = Results / Consistent Results = Destiny
Don't think of cost.  Think of value. — © John Spence
Don't think of cost. Think of value.
Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special.
Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.
The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy... it becomes simple, fair and easy.
You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with.
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.
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.
What you do today determines who you will be tomorrow.
We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.
Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now.
Someone else doesn't have to be wrong for you to be right. — © John Spence
Someone else doesn't have to be wrong for you to be right.
Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you.
Habits, good or bad, can always be traced back to your own thinking.
When values are clear, decisions are easy.
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.
People are more what they hide than what they show.
You are the average of your five closest associates.
Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.
Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.
In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.
Remember: everyone you meet is fighting a mighty battle. Be kind. Be understanding.
We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves.
Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.
When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.
You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
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.
Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.
Your Day Is Your Life
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
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.
Sometimes people don't notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.
Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off.  It's about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can. — © John Spence
Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It's about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.
While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.
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.
Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.
People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them.
When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.
Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.
Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.
You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.
What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while.  Read The Power of Habit. — © John Spence
What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.
Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.
My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.
All that you achieve and all that you fail to achieve are the direct results of your thoughts.
Making one person smile can change the world - maybe not the whole world, but their world.
Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.
Saying someone is ugly doesn't make you any prettier.
Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.
Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem... You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution.
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