Jim Quotes

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show

You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.

I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

The same wall that keeps out your disappointment also keeps out the sunlight of enriching experiences. So let life touch you. The next touch could be the one that turns your life around.

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.

Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played.

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world....you will only ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.

What's the name of the birth defect you have, trampled by a horse during the 2nd trimester?

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

It's a Slobberknocker!

To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people!

There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

If I had time in a bottle, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save everyday for eternity passes. And then I would spend them with you.

Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity.

Being out on the edge, with everything at risk, is where you learn and grow the most.

Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

Never give up...never ever give up.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?

The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.

I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.

Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

Take it easy baby, take it as it comes - specialize in having fun!

Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.