Quotes By Johnny Cash

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate...I choose love.

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

Life and love go on, let the music play.

It's good to know who hates you, and it's good to be hated by the right people.

I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain.

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren't better ...I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.