Jon Bon Jovi Quotes

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an individual. Be unique. Stand out. Make noise. Make someone notice. That's the power of individuals.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray. On the other hand, we can’t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody’s goal and perfection shouldn’t be either. We’ll never be perfect. But remember these three P’s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

We all need to be blind sometimes in order to see.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.

Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear

You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.

When you're about to give up and your heart's about to break, remember that you're perfect, God makes no mistakes.

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast

Passion + Persistence = Possibility

I don´t know where I´m going, only God knows where I´ve been.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.

Any time that you think you've hit the top of the mountain, the truth of the matter is you've just reached another mountain. And it's there to climb all over again.

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

When the World Gets in my Face I say, Have a Nice Day.

You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

And I laughed so hard I think I died

I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.

It's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just wanna live while I'm alive It's my life

I'd rather die than fade away

I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

The creativity is just something that, I don't know, you work very hard at, but part of you says that you were born with it. It's a craft like every other, you have to keep sharp and you have to be aware of your surroundings.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

Nothing is as important as passion.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties.

It's my life and it's now or never.

I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.