Jim Quotes

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Don’t wish it was easier. Wish you were better.

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.

Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

I don't take vacations. I don't get sick. I don't observe major holidays. I'm a jack hammer.

I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

I have always believed that you win as part of a team effort. I've learned that if everybody does a little bit, it adds up to a lot.

Do you think pandas know they're Chinese and they're taking the one child policy a bit too seriously?

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

It's more than personal. I can't screw it up. I have to do.

The thing about crazy people; they don't know they are crazy, that's what make them crazy.

I'm not scared of dying, because I'm an atheist. I won't even know I'm dead. You know why? Because I'll be fùckin' dead.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.

Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.