John Paul Jones Quotes

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

~ John Paul Jones

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve the mastery ... faith is the stronger emotion because it is positive whereas fear is negative.

~ John Paul Jones

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

~ John Paul Jones

I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.

~ John Paul Jones

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

~ John Paul Jones

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

~ John Paul Jones