John Piper Quotes

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

The future is in our power. Let us, then, each morning, resolve to send the day into eternity in such a garb as we shall wish it to wear forever. And at night, let us reflect that one more day is irrevocably gone, indelibly marked.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.

I'm the type of person that if I put it off, I'll forget about it.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

I realize everything's on me as far as what kind of player, person, and student I'm going to be.

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

I don't do what I love to do a lot of the time.

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.