John Lennon Inspirational Quotations

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?

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

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.

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.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections

I don't stand back and judge - I do.

One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.

I'll probably be popped off by some loony.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.

Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.....

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

There are no problems, only solutions.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

All you need is love.

There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.

They'll never be able to forget us.

"All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.

Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere-come and get your share.

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.

if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

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

Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

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.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

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.