Quote

True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.

John Templeton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Templeton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1912
Born: November 29
Died: 2008
Died: July 8
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Investor
Merchant
Winchester
Tennessee
John Marks Templeton
Sir John Marks Templeton
Relax
Carry
Circumstances
Quality
Within
Peace
Calmness
True
External
Regardless

More quotes by John Templeton

Image
Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost.
John Templeton
Image
Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.
John Templeton
Image
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
John Templeton
Image
It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
John Templeton
Image
The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.
John Templeton
Image
Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.
John Templeton
Image
You must be a fundamentalist to be really successful in the market.
John Templeton
Image
Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.
John Templeton
Image
Basic reality seems to be that the more you try to be like God by radiating unlimited love, the more you become flooded by waves of love from others and from God.
John Templeton
Image
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
John Templeton
Image
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
John Templeton
Image
[The main focus in my life now is] to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.
John Templeton
Image
The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
John Templeton
Image
Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the outlook is tremendously bullish if you buy stocks blindly to keep for a century.
John Templeton
Image
Sell a stock only when you have found a new stock that is a 50% better bargain than the one that you hold.
John Templeton
Image
The only way to experience love is to give it.
John Templeton
Image
Let no day go by without counting your blessing.
John Templeton
Image
I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
John Templeton
Image
If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
John Templeton
Image
If you're not grateful, you're not rich - no matter how much you have.
John Templeton