John Winston Ono Lennon MBE was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. His songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in musical history. This John Lennon quotes on life, love, peace will motivate you.
Best John Lennon Quotes
- “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones” ~ John Lennon
- “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” ~ John Lennon, John Lennon quotes on happiness
- “Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.” ~ John Lennon
- “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” ~ John Lennon
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“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” ~ John Lennon
- “When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” ~ John Lennon
- “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” ~ John Lennon
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“A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it” ~ John Lennon
- “It’s just natural, it’s not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it’s The End of The Earth. It’s only a rock group that split up, it’s nothing important. You know you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.” ~ John Lennon
- “The sun is up, the sky is blue It’s beautiful, and so are you.” ~ John Lennon
- “You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.” ~ John Lennon
- “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” ~ John Lennon
- “We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.” ~ John Lennon
- “You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!” ~ John Lennon
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“Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.” ~ John Lennon
- “It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love” ~ John Lennon
- “Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.” ~ John Lennon
- “I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another” ~ John Lennon
- “There was something wrong with me, I thought because I seemed to see things other people didn’t see.” ~ John Lennon
- “I wouldn’t say I was a born writer; I’m a born thinker.” ~ John Lennon
- “I am going into an unknown future, but I’m still all here, and still while there’s life, there’s hope.” ~ John Lennon
- “The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.” ~ John Lennon
- “The more I see the less I know for sure.” ~ John Lennon
- “Love is the answer, and you know that for sure;
Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.” ~ John Lennon - “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.” ~ John Lennon
- “The trouble with government as it is is that it doesn’t represent the people. It controls them.” ~ John Lennon
- “The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.” ~ John Lennon
- “I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?” ~ John Lennon
- “My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.” ~ John Lennon
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“The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.” ~ John Lennon
- “Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” ~ John Lennon
- “Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.” ~ John Lennon, John Lennon quotes on peace
- “Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place.” ~ John Lennon
- “Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.” ~ John Lennon
- “The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can’t face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we’re never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it’s none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what’s important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren’t, there would be peace.” ~ John Lennon
- “Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.” ~ John Lennon
- “Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.” ~ John Lennon
- “A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted.” ~ John Lennon
- “Always remember this: ‘A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses, a miss becomes a misses.'” ~ John Lennon
- “There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.” ~ John Lennon
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“I cannot be what I am not.” ~ John Lennon
- “Nobody controls me. I’m uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that’s barely possible.” ~ John Lennon
- “The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.” ~ John Lennon
- “Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.” ~ John Lennon
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“Don’t hate what you don’t understand!” ~ John Lennon
- “If everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!” ~ John Lennon
- “I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.” ~ John Lennon
- “Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.” ~ John Lennon, John Lennon Quotes on music
- “God is a concept by which we measure our pain.” ~ John Lennon
- “Tell the truth and make it rhyme” ~ John Lennon
- “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” ~ John Lennon
- “You are not your emotions, you have emotions, and you can master them.” ~ John Lennon
- “Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.” ~ John Lennon
- “Get back to where you once belonged.” ~ John Lennon
- “You can manicure a cat but can you capture a man?” ~ John Lennon
