John Bytheway > Quotes

“It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.”
― John Bytheway

“If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this?”
― John Bytheway, When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything

“If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind.”
― John Bytheway, How to Be Totally Miserable

“Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.”
― John Bytheway, When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything

“don't do things that kill you.”
― John Bytheway, What Are You Carrying in Your Backpack?

“you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!”
― John Bytheway

“If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else?

Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you. ”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known in High School: A Crash Course in Teenage Survival

“The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest. ”
― John Bytheway

“If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters!”
― John Bytheway, When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything

“Say no to asphalt!”
― John Bytheway

“The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.”
― John Bytheway, How to Be Totally Miserable

“Some people will dream big dreams while others will wake up and do them.”
― John Bytheway

“The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)”
― John Bytheway, How to Be Totally Miserable

“Say no to parking lots!”
― John Bytheway

“We don’t LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they are”
― John Bytheway

“Be prepared. *smacks chest*”
― John Bytheway

“Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.”
― John Bytheway

“And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did!”
― John Bytheway

“Go and do, don't sit and stew.”
― John Bytheway

“Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!”
― John Bytheway, How to Be Totally Miserable

“Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.”
― John Bytheway, You're Gonna Make It

“Seriously--you've got TWENTY thingamabobs AND a snarfblat!”
― John Bytheway, How to Be Totally Miserable