If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. -John Paul Jones Fear
I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind. -John Paul Jones Happiness
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. -John Paul Jones Chance
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. -John Paul Jones Nature
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. -John Paul Jones Faith
America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean. -John Paul Jones Age
A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice. -John Paul Jones Education
I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind. -John Paul Jones Peace
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well. -John Paul Jones Wisdom
