John McCain

Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History.

No just cause is futile, even if it’s lost, if it helps make the future better than the past.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.

Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you

The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.

You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possesion of the truth.

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

Awareness without action is worthless.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride like it’s a country like I AM the Bronx.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.